Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the spl...

Letters to a Young Poet

Mowaljarlai rarely answered questions with an abstract explanation; he always told a story. His was not a fragmented world, divided into the convenient disciplinary languages and jargon that seem to be required for the understanding of concepts and p...

Storymen

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark—readings...

Possession

Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And ...

The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds

I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he chooses ignorance because he is lay, then he is a fool, for the ignorant are put to hard labor digging and hauling stones for masters w...

Kate Horsley

In one such shop I saw lots of books in the window. I was reminded that humans have to read books. They actually need to sit down and look at each word consecutively. And that takes time. Lots of time. A human can’t just swallow every book going, c...

Matt Haig

Hamlet misspoke, Strawl decided. It is consciousness that makes cowards of us all, not conscience. Right and wrong are venomless when compared to the simple awareness of being alive. The knowledge that existence can equal something past the sum of ou...

Bruce Holbert

Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me. Death: But He remains silent. Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one ...

The Seventh Seal

Sexual attraction is common, Mind rapport is a blessing, and a Soul connection is a gift from the Divine."-Serena Jade

Charismatic Connection

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

Common Sense

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Expanded Universe

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Forewords and Afterwords

Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.

God's Smuggler

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

Howards End

Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

Bayou Moon

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Giorgio de Chirico

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Harvey Weinstein

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

The Adventures of Augie March

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

The Anti-Christ

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

If You Could See Me Now