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Common Quotes by William Hazlitt
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of…
- We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
- The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
- Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon…
- Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'…
- His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,…
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands…
- Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
- I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin