Best common & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.”

Thinking Knows Men Speak Deals Common Imagine Teaching Ignorance He Man Speech Profound Imagine That Dogmatic Common Knowledge Teaching Others

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.”

“Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.”

“It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.”

Humans Two Speak Common Century Human Nature Havens Nonsense Common Denominator

Author:Frederick Rolfe

“We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.”

Should Firsts Believe Kind Mean Persons Said Use Wisdom Politics Speak Common Support Economy Land Citizens Agree Property Liberalism Friendly Division Arrangements

Author:Aristotle

“What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.”

Values Speak Common Principles Constitution Common Sense Free Market Speak The Truth Touchstones

Author:Ted Cruz

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.”

Writing Choices Speak Force Common Style Conversation Genuine Setting Familiar Command Settings Ease Discourse Thorough Pedantic

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc

“It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.”

Way Speak Difficult Common

Author:Horace

“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”

Speak Common Discipline Standards Common Sense High Standards Good Discipline

Author:William Hague

“What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.”

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Author:Cotton Mather

“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me. Such is the conduct which until now I have followed and will follow.”

Trying Stills I Can Ideas Shows Form Speak Common Study Risk Abuse Foolish Common Sense Show Me

Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.”

Form Culture Speak Common Myth Simplest Similarity

Author:Carl Jung

“Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.”

Firsts Reason Truth Speak Common

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)

“It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.”

Littles Use Dies Fall Lost Speak Common Comfort Ears Phrases Little Things

Book:Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts

Source: Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts

“Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.”

Giving Kind Mean Persons Book Ideas Facts Helping Reading Individual Speak Language Common Effects Communication Efficient Composing Shorthand

Author:Charles Scribner IV

“Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.”

People Ifs Speak Common Wonder Revolution

Author:Francis Bacon

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