Ben Carson on Knowledge

"Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective."

"Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience."

"I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital."

"Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away."

"If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments."

"That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all."

"I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group."

"We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning."

"I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity."

"If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come."

"When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture."

"You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be."

"Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them."

"Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt—by forgetting."

"Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself."

"Only God knows the beginning and the end."

"Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out."

"I've never known a case yet where worry helped."

"I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists."

"Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for."

"Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door."

"In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people."

"The greatest and most valuable resources we have for making crucial decision are knowledge and the amazing brainpower God gave human beings when he created us. That's certainly true for deciding our best response to any risk we ever face."

"You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control."