Clarence Thomas Quotes

If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn world history. If you're gonna save lives and be a doctor, you need to study medicine. Then, you will be able to make comments on economy, on medicine, and on world history.

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

Knowledge is power.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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

Education is the mother of leadership.