Relevant Knowledge Quotes

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's always useful. I've got lots and lots of random skills I'll probably never need again.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

Based on my experience and record, I'm the best person to take Jeff Sessions' place.

The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

A degree which is just the paper and does not have the sanctity of law is not the one you want the students chasing for four years.

My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?