Common Quotes

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

You're a part of the order if you're not against it.

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.

Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.

You need to decide for yourself whether you want to be a rare jewel or a common flower

I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.

Cats cant speak, that's common sense.-Yoruichi

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.

Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.

Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go.

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.

But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure.

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.

We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground.

The advantage to fighting the evils that are in plain sight is the fact that it is quite easy to win-over the "opposition".

Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.

It takes centuries for sense to become common

Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.