Quotes about Common sense, page 7

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

Quote by John Pearson about common sense

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about common sense

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Quote by Simon Pegg about common sense

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Quote by Simon Pegg about common sense

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about common sense

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Quote by Li Peng about common sense

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

Quote by Li Peng about common sense

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about common sense

Love grows, lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Quote by William Penn about common sense

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Quote by William Penn about common sense

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Quote by Roger Penrose about common sense

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

Quote by Piper Perabo about common sense

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot, there is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about common sense

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about common sense

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about common sense

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about common sense

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about common sense

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Quote by Erich Fromm about common sense

Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about common sense

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about common sense