Common Quotes - Page 2

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

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.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.