Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.

Catch-22

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Dracula

until he who possesses sapience comes, the one with knowledge shall be the hero

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Divergent

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

The Essence of Christianity

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

[48] - 4 Dispelling fear but knowledge be, Replacing our doubts completely, Nothing need be feared undoubtedly, But must be comprehended absolutely. [49] - 4

Eddies of Life

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

Fahrenheit 451

When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.

Faking It

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

A Familiar Rain

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

Gone with the Wind

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Human, All Too Human

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Breakfast of Champions

A blanket could be used to draw a map on—a treasure map, and not something Google has knowledge of. Want to know what’s under the X? My erection.  

Blanket

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor

You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough.

Bad Science

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting d...

Charles Taze Russell