Street Knowledge Quotes

#1. Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

Big Pun

#2. You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

Schoolly D

#3. My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

Shy Glizzy

#4. Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Vikas Swarup

#5. Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

Vikas Swarup

#6. Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Stephen Fry

#7. If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

Studs Terkel

#8. Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Albert Einstein

#9. It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

Donald T. Regan

#10. What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Elbert Hubbard

#11. I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

Miroslav Vitous

#13. Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

Ray Kurzweil

#14. There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare.

Rudyard Kipling

#15. So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Jim Trelease