Top 100 Common Knowledge Quotes
#1. His appearance projected danger and reinforced the common knowledge that one did not want to piss off a demon, especially this one.
Kiersten Fay
#2. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
Sam Lipsyte
#4. Knowledge is power. It
is my hope that as we continue to do what women do best-network, guide, and
provide support for each other-POP will soon become common knowledge.
Sherrie J. Palm
#5. But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
Albert Camus
#6. It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Strom Thurmond
#7. Common knowledge depends not only on me knowing that you receive a message but also on the existence of a shared symbolic system which allows me to know how you understand it.
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
#8. Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.
John August
#9. Common knowledge, but important nonetheless
Reggie Watts
#10. It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share
Sunday Adelaja
#11. I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.
James Badge Dale
#12. It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
That all sin is divided into two parts.
One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
important
Ogden Nash
#13. It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.
Gena Showalter
#14. Real truth is common knowledge in the world of living men. Men only get to asking about it when they have a hard time accepting what they already know.
Louis Maistros
#16. It was a tiny moment, brief and fleeting, but Olanna noticed how scrupulously they avoided any contact, any touch of skin, as if they were united by a common knowledge so monumental that they were determined not to be united by anything else.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#17. When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
Max Lucado
#18. When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.
Chris Rock
#19. They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could.
Jack Schaefer
#20. It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
John Burnside
#21. It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
Isabel Allende
#22. For the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.
Gustave Le Bon
#23. It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems.
Hank the Cowdog
John Erickson
#24. It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
Donald T. Regan
#25. Men suck," Bailey said, nodding supportively then frowning at Vaughn. "Why do you suck so much? Too much ball toxins?"
"Sounds about right," he muttered, rolling another strike. "Girls get PMS. Guys get ball toxins. Common knowledge.
Bijou Hunter
#26. CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
Ted Turner
#27. Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge
Ivan Misner
#28. I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?'
She giggled.
'Do you not even know that?' she said.
'Do you?'
'It's a proven fact, common knowledge. They're where your wings were, and where they'll grow again.
David Almond
#29. You don't remember what you never fail to do, that is common knowledge,
Per Petterson
#30. The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.
Neal Stephenson
#31. So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.
Jared Leto
#32. Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.
Terry Goodkind
#33. It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Marilu Henner
#34. Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
Jean De La Bruyere
#35. So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
Tippi Hedren
#36. It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey
#37. It's common knowledge that shiny rocks are preferred among human females.
Melissa Landers
#38. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos ... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man ...
Robert M. Pirsig
#39. It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.
Natasha Bedingfield
#40. Perry could no longer deny that it was common knowledge. Aria was the safest path to him.
Veronica Rossi
#41. It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
James Lafferty
#42. It is common knowledge that Belle women make hard men melt like butter in a pan. They are equally adept at reversing the process.
Paula Wall
#43. It's common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.
David Eddings
#44. The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
No real knowledge is common.
Idries Shah
#45. The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.
Polybius
#46. Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.
Ellen J. Barrier
#47. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
#48. Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
Bill Joy
#49. The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."
~Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
#50. If you don't have common sense, ask someone who does
Sonya Withrow
#51. Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben Jonson
#52. Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
Caitlin Rose
#53. The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.
Thomas Malthus
#54. As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.
Salman Rushdie
#55. Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
Henry MacKenzie
#56. Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do ...
E. O. Wilson
#57. The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and relevant knowledge - other directors, artists, crew talent, and smart and fun people in other fields.
Liza Johnson
#58. Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Ramana Maharshi
#59. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton
#60. In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Perhaps the nearest one could get to a common characteristic of poststructuralism would be a radical suspicion of reason, order and certainty as governing principles of knowledge and existence...the absurd and the irrational can no longer be distinguished from the real and the rational
Margaret Maclure
#62. Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries!
Deyth Banger
#63. Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.
Idries Shah
#65. Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.
Narendra Modi
#66. Knowledge is more important than capital. Lack of capital is a common excuse for not starting a business venture.
Timi Nadela
#67. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.
David Amerland
#68. The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.
Ronald H. Nash
#69. I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?
Jasmina Tesanovic
#70. IT IS A COMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge is in continual growth.
C.S. Lewis
#71. The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.
James Madison
#72. 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farrer
#73. Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.
Debasish Mridha
#74. It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
#76. We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
William Hazlitt
#77. The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
Plato
#78. As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
#79. Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'
David Harsanyi
#80. I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
J.K. Rowling
#81. Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew this. The knowledge was built into him.
To Bill Door, he realised, it was so much horse elbows.
Terry Pratchett
#82. It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
John Brunner
#83. I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
Ouida
#84. Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#85. And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because their love was rooted in common things.
E. M. Forster
#86. Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.
T.K. Naliaka
#87. I have known a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. - OUIDA
Kerry Patterson
#88. Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
Bruce Feiler
#90. A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge.
C. G. Jung
#92. Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Common Courtesy, like common sense, does not require any level of education or status. Anyone and everyone can participate. But we need to remember we are not like cats with their kitty litter boxes, we are not born with this knowledge, we must be taught by someone.
Mitzi Taylor
#94. Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
#95. The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.
Michael Lewis
#96. If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it?
T.K. Naliaka
#97. One can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
Gottlob Frege
#98. Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."
Jimmy Carter
#100. It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
Niels Bohr
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