Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Robert Samuelson

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

B. H. Liddell Hart

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Kenneth L. Pike

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

Nicolaus Copernicus

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Vikas Swarup

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Edgar Allan Poe

Processed data is information. Processed information is knowledge Processed knowledge is Wisdom.

Ankala V Subbarao

Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends.

Life

Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.

English

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French

God sells knowledge for labor -- honor for risk.

Saudi Arabian

Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds.

Sierra Leonean

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

Infinite Jest

Common sense is only irritating in other people

Peccadillo: A Katla Novel

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman