Noam Chomsky Quotes

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

We’re not adding to public awareness; we’re adding to public confusion.

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.

As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of the reason the public didn't understand some of the reforms enacted during the past legislative period was that there was far too much talk about the details, while the general picture often remained invisible.

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

I don't think people are really breaking ground and getting new fans or anything. So, I just use it more in my personal life but obviously I'm in a business where people think that Twitter matters so I'll be like, "Yes, I will tweet out this show." But it is something that me, the human, uses.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.