Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.
My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
