C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.”
“Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.”
“Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Common politeness required that I find out; so did extreme nosiness.”
Source: The Chocolate Mouse Trap
“Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.”
“Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists”
“Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower”
“Common sense ain't common.”
“Common sense among men of fortune is rare.”
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.”
Source: The Crystal Bucket
“Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the planet and the socialisation of its elementary needs, and pitted against that was the fact that every authority, every institution, every established way of thinking and living was framed to preserve the advantages of the ruling and possessing minority and the separate sovereignty of the militant states that had been evolved within the vanished circumstances of the past.”
Source: The Holy Terror
“Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.”
“Common Sense
And marvellous magic
Share the same bough”
Source: The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
“Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
Source: The Razor's Edge
“Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.”
“Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.”
Source: Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
“Common sense can dictate a perfectly reasonable response to a situation while the love and passion duo will more often than not out muscle the most macho of men. Love and passion can destabilize an entire economy lest we forget the lesson learned from Helen of Troy.
A.I.M. Lawal”
Source: Millennial Philosophy: Thoughts Expanded
“Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.”
“Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.”
“Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“COMMON SENSE CONCLUSION: Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and effectively manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing conditions of our times.”
“Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.”
“Common sense defends from mistakes and failures in your practical judgement. Questions delegate the mind to think, so your mind will follow questions or common sense. Questions initiate, common sense guards. Two flags to follow.”
Source: Questology
“Common sense dictates that a trace gas needed for life on the planet would not be the cause for destroying life on the planet. Common sense dictates that what has happened before without man can happen again with man. Common sense would dictate that you not believe me, or any one else, but go look for YOURSELF.”
“Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.”
“Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.”
“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.”
“Common sense doesn't always ring true for many people; they want empirical evidence, the scientific stuff.”
“Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.”
Source: The View From Nowhere
“Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.”
Source: In deinen Armen
“Common sense has a direct correlation with social acceptability. Higher the common sense, more the friends.”
Source: Quantraz
“Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.”
“Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.”
“Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Source: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild
“Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.”
“Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.”
“Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.”
Source: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“Common sense is a dangerous myth.”
“Common sense is a gift and it is so painful to watch people with zero common sense.”
“Common sense is a good decision maker and problem solver until your mind reaches uncommon problems.”
Source: Questology
“Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.”
Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students
“Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.”
“Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.”
“common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.”
“Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.”
Source: Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing