The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When a man's knowledge is not in order the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

This life that has been given to us as a gift as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it really try to recognize it is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

If you look at the publishers I've worked with generally they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and almost always less money than ideas.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life like a great deal of human intelligence does not involve a self.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community and especially the counterterrorism community is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence ambition and aggressiveness.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information made better use of technology and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.