Quotes of: Common-belief Keyword

Christianity is part of the common law.

James Wilson

Most people have sense but not common sense.

Debasish Mridha

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Jesse Jackson

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Ellen Page

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas Huxley

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Amit Abraham

what risk to a common man is an opportunity for a wise

Life

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Have common sense and stick to the point.

W. Somerset Maugham

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

James Reston

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

On Certainty

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

William Kingdon Clifford

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

Isaac Hayes

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Jose Bergamin

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

Joy Page

…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Both noble and common blood are the same color.

German

It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly "express" these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble up from there. "Doctrines" are the cognitive, th...

Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation