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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

You do not need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

There is no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there is no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

You do not have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that Does not mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they do not have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, Oh, well that must be true.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

We do not focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.