Quotes of: Common Keyword

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

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

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

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wayne Brady

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Harold Washington

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Cynthia McKinney

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

Nathan Wolfe

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not ...

H.L. Mencken

Common goods, no goods.

Dutch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David Deutsch

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Joan Blades

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

George Jean Nathan