A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

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

You don't 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.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

There are in fact two things science and opinion the former begets knowledge the later ignorance.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it all things are possible.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef once you have that basis that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

The knowledge of anything since all things have causes is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

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.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence that people can get promotions for because it could result in results.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer stronger and wiser.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex and the foundation of intelligence.

There is no one who possesses intelligence and uses reflection who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

I think what he's - what he believes and he may be correct I don't know that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

You know as director of the CIA I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.