A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
To my knowledge I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent contacts knowledge - and do something different.
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.