Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

Pain is easy; pain is something with which I am familiar.

“Language makes the uncommon common. It can never create experience of something we do not know – only release something in us that is already there.”

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.

Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

I am an untrained musician and a common man’s singer.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

A government, at bottom, is nothing more than a gang of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men … Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far wrong to describe the best as the common enemy of all decent citizens.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you’re not doing it right.ain

Young men, of course, don’t want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: ‘Use your common sense rather than book instructions.’

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

Sense is never common.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . . A new Hedonism — that is what our century wants. You might be its visible symbol

We live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.