Common Quotes · Page 9

Common sense is as rare as genius.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“decency.”’14 Decency and common”

— Arkady Ostrovsky

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

— Ivan Misner

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

— Michael Howard

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

— Rudolf Flesch

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

— Lillie Devereux Blake

Being common is close to being a coma

— Anonymous

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

— Tite Kubo

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

— Confucius

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

— Ian Mcewan

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

— Oswald Chambers

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is…

— O. Henry

I am, to me, but a common man; that lives, dares, to be, uncommon things.

— Eric Nickel

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

— Lewis B. Smedes

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards…

— Richard Gere

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

— Stephen Fry

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment…

— George Muller

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures…

— Friedrich Engels

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together…

— Sandy Koufax

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve…

— Sarah Palin

[Donald Trump rhetoric]this is a common rhetorical line used by people who are against free trade that say, we're in favor of…

— Avik Roy

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…

— Epictetus

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's…

— Tim Finn

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored,…

— Robert W. Sarnoff

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together…

— Leslie Mann

Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something.…

— Charlie Munger

National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a…

— Costa Georgiadis

From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the…

— Alan Keyes

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the…

— Clarence Darrow

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but…

— Bill James

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead…

— Wendy Kaminer

To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common…

— Jean Meslier

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

— Sophocles

They had nothing in common but the English language.

— Anonymous

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

— Bob Dylan

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

— Richard Dawkins

Its very unfortunate that common sense is not always common

— Russyb

We share a lot in common, attitude wise.

— Alex Riley