Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Richard Dawkins

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

Amit Kalantri

It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is.

Aaron B. Powell

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Vince McMahon

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Vladimir Putin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Jeannette Rankin

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road

Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

The Ministry of Fear

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

Stefan Molyneux

Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction.

M.F. Moonzajer

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.

Roopleen

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Confucius