Knowledge

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Research is creating new knowledge.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.