Common Quotes

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

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.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

Sense is never common.

Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.