Commonly Called Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes
• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw
• It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what… — Lysander Spooner
• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism,… — Radhanath Swami
• …a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or… — Charles Dickens
• The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
• All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but… — John Lubbock
• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He… — William Nicholson
• I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight… — Bertrand Russell
• It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a… — James Fenimore Cooper
• Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The… — John Buchanan Robinson

Who Wrote These Commonly Called Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 33 Commonly Called Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Commonly Called Quotes by Andre Breton
• 2 Commonly Called Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by James Fenimore Cooper
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by John Buchanan Robinson
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Henry Fielding
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Philip O Ceallaigh
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Samuel Adams
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Luis Bunuel
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Auguste Rodin
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Jean Guitton
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Henry R. Luce
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Eckhart Tolle
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Georg Ernst Stahl
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Ann Radcliffe
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Marcus Aurelius
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Robert Cailliau
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Harold Ford, Jr.
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Stephen Fry
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Thomas Hobbes
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Lysander Spooner
• 1 Commonly Called Quote by Radhanath Swami