Common Quotes
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.
Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.
If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.
Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!
There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.
The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.
One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.
Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace