Common Quotes

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

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.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

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

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.