There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions the hard questions before not afterwards and get the right intelligence.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately you rarely hear a patient careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Where the stakes are the highest in the war on terror we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing planning and collaborative enforcement.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format using their talent craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away it takes away from the imagination.

My life has been a gift up to this point and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

You have to just go with your imagination where your instinct takes you.

If Copenhagen were a person that person would be generous beautiful elderly but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.