Quotes About Common

Vulgus semper aeque miserum manet.

If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

Permanecí en silencio. No quería decirle que aquello era una práctica común. No quería contarle que en el mundo de los negocios los secretos son dinero, que el miedo es una arma, que el conocimiento es poder.

This gorgeous financial myopia was common in the Valley, and one of the chief sources of its success.

Sporadic rebellion would be replaced by class-conscious revolution. Instead of burning down the manor, the workers would expropriate it and put it to use for the collective benefit of the common people, the ones who built it in the first place.

The colors and shapes of the flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive," the poet and critic Frederick Turner has written. He goes on to suggest that it "would be a paradoxically anthropocentric mistake to assume that, because bees are more primitive organisms .         .         . there is nothing in common between our pleasure in flowers and theirs.

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

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.

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

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.