Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

F. H. Bradley

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Frank Zappa

Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

Amit Kalantri

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

Anonymus

No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions.

African

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.

Traditional

If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.

Vietnamese

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

A Dictionary of Thought

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

Fool's Assassin

Friendship is the underlying element, the common denominator of every relationship.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The Greek Way

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker