Common Knowledge Quotes

• 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

  Real, Looks, Common

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

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• All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

  Mandell Creighton

  Knowledge, Science, Common Sense

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Bridges, Understanding, Needs

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

  Aristotle

  Men, Simplicity, Crowds

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Men, Matter, South Carolina

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• I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

  Luke Evans

  Thinking, People, Common

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

  Marilu Henner

  Thanksgiving, New Year, Average

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• Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

  Ivan Misner

  Common, Uncommon, Application

  FaceBook post by Ivan Misner from Nov 12, 2016

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• 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

  Children, Big Fish, Yards

  "Fictional character: Edward Bloom". Big Fish, 2003.

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• Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Real, Community, Personality

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• It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

  James Lafferty

  Art, Glasses, Common

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• 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

  Teaching, Ignorance, Men

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• 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

  Country, Memories, Men

  Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”

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• In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums of money which are then used in support of their campaign or to contribute to their campaign. They were trying to close that loophole.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Organization, Support

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• 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

  Men, Cells, Mind

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• 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

  Education, Art, Two

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

  Stuart Wilde

  Educational, Knowledge, Ideas

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• CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

  Ted Turner

  Weed, Marijuana, Anchors

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• 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

  Trying, Television, Common

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rights, Differences, People

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• I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Art, Innovation

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Men, Common

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• There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

  Anne Rice

  Loneliness, Kissing, Sea

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Differences, Views

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