Common Quotes - Page 2

• Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Nature, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

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• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Humor

  Quoted in John Hay, Diary, 24 Dec. 1863.

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• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Fall

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Common sense ain't common.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Common Sense

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• Common sense is as rare as genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Common Sense, Genius, Serious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.395, Penguin

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• TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Teamwork, People

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• Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

  M.M. Kaye

  Common Sense, Adherence, Conventions

  M. M. Kaye (2015). “Shadow of the Moon”, p.163, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Teamwork, Common Vision, Individual Effort

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• If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

  Francisco Largo Caballero

  Stars, Common Sense, Sun

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• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  Norman O. Brown

  Science, Essence, Long

  Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”

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• Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Common Sense, World

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• Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

  Kingsley Amis

  Common Sense, Motto, Peril

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “Stanley And The Women”, p.226, Random House

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• Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

  John Berger

  Home, Common Sense, Ignorant

  John Berger (2015). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

  F. Burton Howard

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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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

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Common Sense

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• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, School, Common Sense

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• Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Success, Failure, Common Sense

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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Artist

  Codice Atlantico 90

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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

  Dr. An Wang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Lessons: An Autobiography". Book by An Wang, September 22, 1986.

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• Common sense is genius in homespun.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Common Sense, Genius

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• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

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