People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
