Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Richard Wilbur

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Tina Brown

The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.

Anthony Fauci

Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

Auliq Ice

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Alfred Marshall

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.

Robert P. McCulloch

All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people

Life

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.

Wolfgang Köhler

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Walter Legge

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Jeff Miller

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Arthur Henderson

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

Geraldine Brooks

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

The Complete Essays

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

Fugitive Prince

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened

The Hanover Square Affair

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.

The Broken Path

Be satisfied in your ignorance for there is no safety in knowledge.

Crowning Fantasy Book 1

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes