Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Christopher Dawson

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

Esther Dyson

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Andrew Mellon

It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.

Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Bruce Braley

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Life

I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

Life

There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are

Love

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.

Vj Nadar

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application

Becoming conscious and aware is a journey itself, and we all struggle in that journey we call life. Instead of judging one another, help each other, not by convincing them of your truth but through letting them think for themselves by spreading knowl...

Nynke Visser

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acqui...

Willis R. Whitney

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

Hausfrau

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The Raw and the Cooked

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Henry Petroski

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

Rajib Lochan Dhibar

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne