There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

As writers become more numerous it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

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.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy no authority can revoke and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

It is not knowledge but the act of learning not possession but the act of getting there which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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.

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

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create to overcome to endure to transform to love and to be greater than our suffering.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

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.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson Walt Disney Charlie Chaplin people who understand the joy of the imagination.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.