Welcome to our collection of common quotes! Throughout history, humanity has been captivated by words of wisdom, inspiration, and insight. From ancient philosophers to modern-day thought leaders, the power of a well-crafted quote transcends time and resonates with people across cultures and generations. Whether offering guidance, motivation, or a fresh perspective, quotes have a unique ability to encapsulate complex ideas into succinct phrases that leave a lasting impression.
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The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. Coretta Scott King
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Thomas Sowell
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings
Absence – that common cure of love. Lord Byron
The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools. Bobbi Brown
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippmann
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. Thales
The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’ Jeff Bezos
Gay men don’t have much in common with lesbians. Douglas Murray
You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common. Lyle Lovett
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying. Kevin Feige
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan
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. Thomas Hobbes
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. Joe Biden
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Niccolo Machiavelli
‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. Alexander Pope
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck
Donald Trump’s election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity. Bari Weiss
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Robert Greene
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. Kofi Annan
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Patrick Lencioni
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. James Fenimore Cooper
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. Carlo Collodi
The best partnerships aren’t dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion. Sarah MacLean
We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not. William Hall
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. Confucius
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know. Tansy Rayner Roberts
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people. Kailash Satyarthi
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman
True security is based on people’s welfare – on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. Ban Ki-moon
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. Giorgio de Chirico
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. Zig Ziglar
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters. Casey Neistat
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
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. Soren Kierkegaard
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other’s experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. A. R. Rahman
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. Stephen Hawking
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. T. D. Jakes
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. George Washington
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. Edward Gibbon
Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. Cory Booker
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person. Marco Pierre White
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. Isaac Bashevis Singer
I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal. Tom Brady
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. Henry A. Wallace
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. Satchel Paige
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. Clive James
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken
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
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Woodrow Wilson
We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond. Adrienne C. Moore
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. Barack Obama
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. Henry David Thoreau
I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show. Rakhi Sawant
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden
Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there’s any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn’t always exist. We’ve come a long way in sports. Why can’t society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change? Stephen M. Ross
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley
I’m not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense. Steve Harvey
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible. Howard Schultz
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas A. Edison
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. Jimmy Carter
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. Muhammad Ali
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis de Tocqueville
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. Henry J. Heinz
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln
Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. John Wooden
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan. Freida Pinto
Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
It’s not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games. Erik Spoelstra
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know. Bob Marley
