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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Related topics: Wisdom
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have learned, that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams
and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined,
you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
We seek to emphasize those practical things that we have in common.
- Australian Prime Minister John Howard
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen
I have thought there was some advantage even in death,
by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
- Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not going to be able
to operate our Spaceship Earth
successfully nor for much longer
unless we see it as a whole spaceship
and our fate as common.
It has to be everybody or nobody.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My criticism of most religions is that
they don't allow criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
All religions are the same:
Religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
- Cathy Ladman
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any statement that is self-serving
is likely to contain untruths.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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