Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Stoner

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Thrilled with the knowledge that she loved me, it took me a moment to realize that she was angry. I found her tantrum irresistible." #Ren

Tiger's Curse

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Phaedrus

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere

Towers of Midnight

Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.

Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Think and Grow Rich

The internet is a knowledge omelet. Sometimes I just want the purity of scrambled eggs that only a book can provide.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My knowledge is mine to use as I see fit. But I’m way too out of shape to see fit.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and a life-changing chaos,I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on.

Untamed

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Voice of Reason

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

Walking

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

White Noise

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

The Wings of Hope: Survivor

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

The Year of the Flood

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Bill Shorten

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Joe Mantegna