Common Quotes · Page 46

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

— Euripides

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps…

— Noah Feldman

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their…

— David Hume

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

— Anonymous

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according…

— Mary Hunter Austin

As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other…

— Jacque Fresco

This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in…

— Maria Montessori

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

— George Orwell

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

— Nancy Pearcey

Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve…

— Robert H. Frank

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of…

— Victor Hugo

For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good…

— Miroslav Volf

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to…

— Woodrow Wilson

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man…

— Anonymous

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

— Richard Aldington

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in…

— Mark Foley

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

— Rudolf Steiner

I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their…

— John D. Rockefeller

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's…

— Jay Roach

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for…

— King Felipe VI

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm…

— Diablo Cody

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts?…

— Adolf Loos

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had…

— William Hazlitt

The claims [about my inappropriate conduct with women] are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic. We already have substantial…

— Donald Trump