Best common & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”

Men World Enough Problem Evil Common Free Will Charging

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.”

People Ifs World Ends Problem Earth Wish Social Common Resources International Heritage Ongoing Social Problems

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.”

Self Whole Problem Able Interest Common Steps Democracy Addresses Self Interest

Author:Eli Pariser

“Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Today Found Common Drug Tests Sticks After Death Arsenic

Author:Michael Baden

“From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.”

Problem Might Able Causes Common Solve Common Sense Opening Worms Standpoint Right Road Cans Of Worms

Author:Kelvin Sampson

“Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.”

Problem Common Common Sense Application Conservation Common Good

Book:Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings

Source: Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings

“People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different”

People Way Different Problem Able Community Common Perception Solutions Work Out Divided Realistic

Author:Steven Biko

“On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Enough Problem Hands Action Individual Difficult Common Pressure Institutions Saving Human Soul Heresy Vigorous Reconcile Hazards Coerce

Author:Jacques Barzun

“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”

Years Firsts Humans Problem Turns Names Term Realizing Common Steps Our Lives Century Movement Six Faults Motherhood Human Life Forty First Steps Eighty Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Betty Friedan

“Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!”

Problem Differences Common Attitude Above The Clouds

Author:Abdul Kalam

“The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.”

Philosophy Problem Results Deals Common Highest Prejudice Multitudes Incapacity

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.”

Firsts Problem Bigs Together Interest Common Influence Demand Solutions Concern Bitter Partisans Big Problems Common Interests

Author:Barack Obama

“When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.”

People Trying Country Problem Turns Given Force Causes Common Development Concern Threat Arise Socialism Internals Capitalist Socialist Hostile Restoration Socialist Countries

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

Philosophy Problem Turns Force Understanding Common Source Ultimate Function Preserves Nevertheless Elementals Pseudo

Author:Martin Heidegger

“The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.”

Thinking Ideas Problem Common Support Economic Policy Solutions Common Sense Reasoning Wonderland Storage Economic Problems Topsy Turvy

Author:Benjamin Graham

“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.”

“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.”

Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

“It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.”

“Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.”

Humans Persons Problem Universe Common Achieve Subjects Buddhism Birth All Things Universal Buddhist Cycles Emancipation Birth And Death Transience

Book:Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

Source: Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

“We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.”

World Needs Problem Courses Nations Common Effort Support Serious Concern Trade Divorced Recognise Integrated Free Trade World Trade

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!”

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”

Source: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense

“We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.”

Needs Problem Poor Common Rich Prosperity Solve Gaps Rich Poor

Author:Zong Qinghou

“The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.”

Art Problem Common Cases Findings Problem Solving Fractions Common Denominator Detection

Author:Elsa Barker

“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.”

“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.”

Reason Use Problem Bits Interest Common Example Reader Models Advantage Mathematics Common Sense Conclusion Economist No Problem Appreciated Precision Anthropologists

Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think that is mostly twaddle... The liquidity gives us these crazy booms, which have many problems as well as virtues.”

Thinking Giving Problem Common Virtue Crazy Capitalism Notion Contributors Liquidity

Author:Charlie Munger

“Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.”

World Has Beens Facts Problem Differences Common Numbers Cold Grim Public Health Disturbance Psychiatric Health Problems Postpartum Depression Common Cold Economic Depression

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.”

Knows Men Problem Universe Easy Common Destiny Trouble Atheism Positive Atheism Satisfied Ignorant Accounting Common Man

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.”

Problem Common Economic Difficulty Innovation Common Sense Capitalist Propositions

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.”

People Problem Seems Together Found Differences Common Solutions Peaceful Goodwill Common Good Get Together

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.”

“I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.”

Men Needs Different Facts Problem Common Consideration No Problem Sympathetic Common Ground

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.”

Ends Self Country Whole Problem Common Our Country Divided Common Ground Self Inflicted

Author:Barack Obama

“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.”

“It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.”

Giving Problem Lasts Science Common Steps Solutions Relation Responsible Mathematics Credit Mathematician Public Relations Gimmicks

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.”

Humans Matter Problem Lasts Political Values Language Common Moral Standards Court Affair Experiments Resorts Atomic Bomb Common Language

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!”

Persons Problem Common

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.”

People Way Want States Facts Use Problem Turns Force Community Common Core Satisfied Locals Agency Department Throat Requirements Suggestions Mandates Local Community Common Core

Author:Marco Rubio

“What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Humans Problem Song Realizing Deals Common Gone Music Is Feel Good Feel Better Make People Feel Better

Author:Jack Johnson

“Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.”

People Trying Doe Problem Together Law Interest Common Approach Lawyer Working Together Disagree Common Interests

Author:Denis Healey

“It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.”

Thinking Mean Use Problem Would Be Common Nice Finals Common Sense

Author:John Hughes

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