Best common & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.”

Thinking Should Kind May Common Errors Remembered Pedants Pedantry Useful Knowledge

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.”

Thinking Might Together Common Carpenter

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.”

Thinking World Writing Littles Stories Common Fantasy Pieces Failing Caught Tendencies Legacy Expenses Unfortunate Caught Up Describing

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.”

People Thinking Views Common Modern Point Of View Flattering Common Ground Appreciative Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.”

Thinking Country Stories Common Music Is Appreciate Hip Hop Hips Hops Not Afraid Favourite Pun Wordplay Favourite Things Punchlines

Author:St. Vincent

“Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.”

People Thinking Littles Powerful Common Too Much Danger Huge Computer Tools Common Sense Organized Uncommon

Author:Charlie Munger

“The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.”

Thinking Want Kind Guy Fall Common Letting Go Jokes Falling In Love Uncomfortable Wheels Amusing Steering

Author:An Na

“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”

Thinking Men Faces Courses Imagination Common Vision Like You Mad Vices Insight Invisible Obsession Realms Mask Accurate Herds Precision Marvellous Seers Geometric

Book:Monsieur de Phocas

Source: Monsieur de Phocas

“I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.”

People Thinking Sometimes Used Strong Easy Voice Ability Common Effects Instruments Core Used To Be These Days Underrated Craftsmanship

Author:Victoria Legrand

“Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.”

Thinking Needs Might Courses Common Argument West Islam Als Mainstream Extremist

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“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

“Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.”

“No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.”

Thinking Needs Years Doe Today Past Science Common Study Students Paper Research Years Ago Scientist Originals Nuclear Contemporary Substance Fifty Agreement Papers Physicist Textbooks

Author:C.P. Snow

“So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.”

People Thinking Writing Doe Kids America Social Results Deals Common Study Teaching Lessons Math Core Social Studies Teaching Kids Common Core

Author:Megyn Kelly

“The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.”

Thinking Seems Common Seeing Color Habit Common Sense Painter Unlearn

Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“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

“Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.”

Ifs Thinking Book States Shows Hands President United Powerful Common United States Former Governors Promoting Qualified Very Powerful Alaska Palin Powerful Women New Books

Author:David Letterman

“I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.”

“I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Real Running Faces House Common Streets Cat Your Face Crossings Fur

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Running Certain Parent Common Situation Extremes Goodbye Common Denominator

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.”

Thinking School Felt Common Misfits

Author:Clare Balding

“We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.”

“Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.”

People Thinking Doe Left Common Brain Practice Technology Promise Civilization Intelligent Contrary Rely Advanced Technology

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.”

“However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.”

Thinking Knows World May Feelings Eye Common Higher Prejudice Clouds Stranger Defense Contrary Shy Disputes Quarrels Disgrace

Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings

Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.”

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”

Ifs Thinking World Needs War Moments Humanity Asks Force Nations Differences Forget Common This World Members Universal Threat Obsession Aliens Aspiration Antagonism

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.”

Thinking World Common Share Common Sense

Author:Rene Descartes

“Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.”

“I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Seems Left Common Pay Wings Workers Common Sense Corporations Giants Stamps Profitable Left Wing Food Stamps

Author:Nick Hanauer

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.”

Thinking Men World Giving Firsts Persons Character Values Understanding Dark Common Accepting Opinion Creatures Capacity Rate Casts Contrary Common Sense Leap Proposal Matrimony

Book:Moll Flanders

Source: Moll Flanders

“Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.”

People Thinking Want Common Quality Clothes Crawling

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?”

Thinking Opportunity Simple Answers Common Attitude Liberty Havens Cold Spread Free Will Right Answers Undermining Implied Common Cold

Book:Stand on Zanzibar

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“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

“Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.”

Thinking Want Common Demand Being There

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.”

Thinking Wells Social Prayer Common Opinion Minors Courtesy Admitting Blunders Breach Common Courtesy

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.”

People Thinking Real Common Common Sense Working It

Author:Billie Piper

“I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Mean Fall Bits Common Cooks Ingredients Lowest Common Denominator Squash Vortex Maple Syrup Cinnamon Lowest Common Denominator Maple Syrup

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“Have you ever had a big idea or dream - something you wanted so bad ... but you were too scared to make it happen, or maybe you didn't really believe it could? Think of how often you've had someone you looked up to or viewed as successful - shoot one of your suggestions full of holes. Ideas and babies have a lot in common - they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Believe May Ideas Dream Bigs Happens Able Wanted Common Successful Baby Birth Size Scared Holes New Ideas Suggestions Nourishment Make It Happen Big Ideas

Author:Bob Proctor

“If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Kind Artist Common Materials Scientist Profession Imaginative

Author:Catherine Yass

“There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.”

Thinking Looks States Shows Lines Common Perspective Activity Regard Common Sense Firm Maps Epidemics Dividing Influenza

Author:Julie Gerberding

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Thinking Way Stills Two Different Feelings Today Faces Form Spirit Common Special Species Islam Jew Way Of Thinking Face To Face

Author:A. C. Cuza

“Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?”

“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!”

“It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.”

“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.”

Thinking Should Book Matter Stories School Political Language Common Study Students Source Pure Conflict Structure Shocking Compelled Public School

Author:David Plotz

“It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.”

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