Common Quotes - Page 25

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

Love is the most common miracle.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.

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.