Common Knowledge Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever…
— Dalai Lama
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It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
— Donald T. Regan
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We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced…
— James Madison
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It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany…
— James Byron Bissett
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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…
— Ed Markey
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Common knowledge, but important nonetheless
— Reggie Watts
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Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge
— Ivan Misner
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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…
— Aristotle
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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…
— Jared Leto
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The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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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,…
— Anne Rice
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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
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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…
— Polybius
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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…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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…
— Bill Vaughan
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So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
— Tippi Hedren
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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
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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
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Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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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
Who Wrote These Common Knowledge Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Common Knowledge Quotes, led by these top contributors: