Common people Quote by Sinclair Lewis

“When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that…

— Neal Shusterman

“There was little that common sense and hard work couldn't accomplish.”

— Karen Hawkins

“Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how they dealt…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”

— Epictetus

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become…

— George Orwell

“Doing something for humanity may be fine—for humanity—but rough on the individual!”

— Kornbluth Cyril M

“In fact, because the unself-aware—which includes basically everybody—are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and…

— Lionel Shriver

“Were all people who tried to help doomed to live outside society because others didn't understand them?”

— Jennifer Bohnhoff

“Some people make their own opportunities. The wise person benefits from acts that are lost on others.”

— Jim M. Perdue

“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.”

— Adam Smith

“Working to make everybody equal didn’t leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness.”

— Drew Karpyshyn