Common Quotes - Page 36

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Education forms the common mind.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.