General Knowledge Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
— John Adams
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It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger…
— Van Day Truex
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me…
— Orson Scott Card
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
— William Blake
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
— C. V. Wedgwood
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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
— John Millington Synge
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I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
— Margaret Atwood
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And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as…
— John Adams
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There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
— Suzanne Somers
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To comprehend every culture has its own manners is general knowledge. Realizing they are all justifiable is intelligence
— Juju
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I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language. They are under an English speakinggovernment…
— Calvin Coolidge
Who Wrote These General Knowledge Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 General Knowledge Quotes as follows: