Quotes about common
common-sense prejudice sound-judgment
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
common-sense funeral police
The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense. Thomas Streicher
common-sense made theory
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But 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? Thomas Sowell
common forget rich
Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
common-sense political politics
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. Sting
common-sense superstitions epithet
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
common expected mutual
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Samuel Johnson
common cases company
The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever. Sam Altman
common states interest
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest. Roy Barnes
common-humanity giving understanding
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Robert Penn Warren
common-sense guy common
I'm a common-sense kind of guy. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
common talent artistic
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Stephen King
common-threads people support
If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used. Terrence Howard
common-sense autism too-much
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. Temple Grandin
common-sense said uncommon
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Thomas Chalmers
common-sense laughing people
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense. Tyler Perry
common language turns
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. Karl Kraus
common taxes
We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax. Otto Schily
common-sense challenges conservative
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Ronald Reagan
common-sense community leader
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves. Werner Erhard
common-humanity kitchen spy
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this. William Boyd
common-sense kingdoms fields
...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest. William Carey
common investment very-good
We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts. Vladimir Putin
common-sense may sound
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. William Kingdon Clifford
common-humanity together working-together
We all do better when we work together William J. Clinton
common-humanity differences together
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
common-humanity interesting peaceful
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.
common-sense pistols use
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense Samuel Fuller
common-sense people needs
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises. Sally Ride
common-sense upset world
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world. Vincent Bugliosi
common-sense way life-is
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
common utopia envisioning
I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not. Roseanne Barr
common-sense church care
I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right from the start! They call God he instead of she and all three would like to burn me at the stake for saying that!