Common Quotes - Page 17

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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.

We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Common sense is not always common practice.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense

I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

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

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.