Quotes of: Common-man Keyword

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Franz Liszt

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Craig Brown

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Joe Perry

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

John Turturro

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Fred Upton

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Giambattista Vico

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

William Hague

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Amit Kalantri

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Benjamin Carson

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

Christine Pelosi

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Joyce Meyer

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, agains...

Civil Disobedience

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detail...

The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling b...

Echoes of Common Sense

Priest: If men don't trust each other, this earth might as well be hell. Commoner: Right. The world's a kind of hell. Priest: No! I don't want to believe that! Commoner: No one will hear you, no matter how loud you shout. Just think. Which one of the...

Rashomon

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Traditional

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

The Common Reader

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader