Common Knowledge Quotes

Since everyone around you agrees ever since there were people on earth that land is value, or labor is value, or learning is value, or title, degree, necklaces, murex shells, the ownership of slaves. Everyone knows bees sting and ghosts haunt and giving your robes away humiliates your rivals. That the enemies are barbarians. That wise men swim through the rock of the earth; that houses breed filth, airstrips attract airplanes, tornadoes punish, ancestors watch, and you can buy a shorter stay in purgatory. The black rock is holy, or the scroll; or the pangolin is holy, the quetzal is holy, this tree, water, rock, stone, cow, cross, or mountain--and it's all true. The Red Sox. Or nothing at all is holy, as everyone intelligent knows.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

William Shakespeare