Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

Amit Kalantri

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi

Life

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

William Allen White

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Martin Jacques

For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. A...

The Four Loves

Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly, to represent a common feature; but thirdly, to find expression for a common feature th...

The Interpretation of Dreams

None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.

French

Where human knowledge ends the imagined God begins.

Enter Ruinland

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

The Knowledge of the Holy

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.

The Lucian Uprising

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Jean Piaget

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kofi Annan

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Horace Mann

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge