General Knowledge Quotes

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people.

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.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

… knowing as the man in the street always does

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.

I know a little about a lot of things. But I don't know a lot about everything.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.