Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Mark Rylance

The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. ...

Roadside Picnic

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings ...

New Psycho-Cybernetics

For just a second, Lauren wonders if she’s going insane. But insane people don’t think they’re insane, everybody knows that. But...since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn’t that mean an insane person could use it to convince th...

Quarter Life Crisis: A Novel

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lig...

Walking

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowled...

Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

VIRGIL PROFEANU

Common sense is not so common.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.

Stephan Labossiere

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Avery Brooks

Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.

Elaine Ostrach Chaika

You don't gain more authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have much authority.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wayne Brady

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

The Knowledge of the Holy

Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.

The Steel Queen