Quotes of: Common Keyword

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

Michael Moore

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Susan George

We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

Marta Kristen

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Bryant H. McGill

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

…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

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

The Common Reader