Common Quotes

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.