Quotes of: Common-knowledge Keyword

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Frederick Soddy

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Huston Smith

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeremy Collier

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

John Denham

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

Jennie Garth

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Jean Piaget

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Jonathan Raymond

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Lynda Barry

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

Nancy Gibbs

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato