“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.”— John Tyler, presidential-power.org
“The mental aspects of hitting were especially important to me. I was strictly a guess hitter, which meant I had to have a thorough knowledge of every pitcher I came up against and develop a strategy for hitting him. My method was to identify the pitches a certain pitcher had and eliminate all but on…”— Hank Aaron, amazon.com
“We are more enlightened now than ever before and continue to be so. The reason is, once you are introduced to a piece of wisdom, you can never unknow it. So it will keep growing in you and all of us.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“It was knowledge that could change everything. It could change the world.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com
“Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it’s the odd good one that makes a big difference.”— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com
“There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.”— George R. R. Martin, Tywin Lannister, amazon.com
“I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“When politicians knowingly lie about, or censor, scientific facts, they are hurting you. And the entire country.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“But whose child was I? The question was there when I was born. It's still there. The question haunts me, worries me, troubles my sleep. You wouldn't think it would matter after all this time, but it does. Something deep inside me needs to know.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“What I call the void is where nothing exists. It is about things outside man's knowledge. Of course the void does not exist. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“These things cannot be explained in detail. From one thing, know ten thousand things. When you attain the Way of strategy there will not be one thing you cannot see. You must study hard.”— Miyamoto Musashi, en.wikiquote.org