Shared Knowledge Quotes

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

Wisdom is not the province of only one party.

Understanding is a two-way street.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

Open rules! Open standards! Open findings! Open precedents!

WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

One cannot be independent of the deep thinking of the people.

The secret of atomic energy does not belong to America … it belongs to al mankind.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

For the general good of the world [written work] should be understood as … belonging to the publick.

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.