Common Quotes

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

Absence - that common cure of love.

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.