Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading men and studying all the various facets of them.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with say my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world as there is of the outer world.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time and trying to be brighter.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness surely they will in no way affect you.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life full of intelligence full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation the world supplied the first model while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals but like God Himself if I may venture to say it.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

Look people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world I don't care where it is when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world I don't care where it is when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world and develop skills emotional intelligence to enjoy life and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy normal boys.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work and perhaps in addition lend a hand in improving society after schooling is done.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have including intelligence information.

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.