Quotes of: Common-belief Keyword

People think common sense is common - but it's not.

Don Cherry

common sense is embedded in common things

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.

Sense and Sensibility

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

Robin S. Sharma

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

Traditional

There are those who don’t believe in God and yet do good. There are those who believe in God and kill for that belief; those who prepare for war because they claim they want peace, and so on. So one has to ask oneself what need there is to believe ...

The Krishnamurti Reader

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Mark Rylance

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in...

Eragon

Subjective storytelling is now almost as common in the news media as it is in feature films, TV dramas, novels or theater shows. Journalists at their worst are self-centered storytellers who either knowingly or unknowingly bend truths into stories th...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas,...

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

Marian Seldes

Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know just how messy it is. We know that meat comes from an animal, but we choose not to connect the dots. And often, we eat animals and cho...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Common sense is not so common.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.

Stephan Labossiere

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

Update your belief! If necessary, throw it to the bin! Don’t exaggerate your belief! Remember that your belief is not that much important; the important thing is what the science, what the reason and the truth say! And remember also that with the e...

Mehmet Murat ildan

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered s...

Sri Chinmoy

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe