Common Quotes
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God
'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.
I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.
The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They're all based on communities.
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.
