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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. -- John Adams
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. -- John Millington Synge
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 literary education very incomplete. -- Lafcadio Hearn
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 the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. -- Orson Scott Card
General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess. -- William Blake
There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things. -- Suzanne Somers
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
If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education. -- Larry Page
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
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 knowledge, more experience and flair. -- Van Day Truex
Misunderstanding are always cause by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. The best way to dispel ignorance of the doings of others is by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thoughts intercourse. -- Nikola Tesla
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general. -- Ernest Sosa
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. -- Isaac Watts
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. -- David Perlmutter
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need? -- Henry Ford
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
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. -- Margaret Sanger
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. -- John Ruskin
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence. -- Samuel Johnson
Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being. -- R.W. Southern
We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on. -- Vince Staples
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. -- John Boyd Orr

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