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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 their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

    John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.219, Penguin
  • 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.

    Stupid   Class   Careers  
  • General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

    "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)
  • To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

    "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)
  • No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

    'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 19
  • If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

    Impact   People   Looks  
  • Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.

    Cowboy   Mind   Defense  
    "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
  • Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

    'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)
  • 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 discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

  • 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 (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition
  • Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

    "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.
  • The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

    Islands   Wind   Enough  
    John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.26, Northwestern University Press
  • 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.

    Color   Design   Stronger  
  • 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.

    Knowledge   May   Peril  
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