Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

Jo Brand

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Wynton Marsalis

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

Asa Gray

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Robert Frost

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Steve Coogan

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

William Graham Sumner

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Zhuangzi

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.

Deborra-Lee Furness

In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

Francis Fukuyama

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

Heather Matarazzo

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

John Mackey

In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Justin Rosenstein

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Sophocles

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Hayes

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Wangari Maathai

Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future.

Greg van Eekhout

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

Rosario Dawson