Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen – Albert Einstein.
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18 – Albert Einstein.
Common sense is genius in homespun – Alfred North Whitehead.
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the [...]
Quotes by Subject's archives
Common Sense Quotes, Sayings about Common Sense
Confusion Quotes, Sayings about being Confused
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key – Alan Bennett.
Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia – Anne Austin.
You always admire what you really don’t understand – Blaise Pascal.
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks [...]
Courage Quotes, Sayings about Bravery
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance – Aesop.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear – Ambrose Redmoon.
One man with courage makes a majority – Andrew Jackson.
You can’t test courage cautiously – Anne Dillard.
Courage is never to let your actions [...]
Democracy Quotes, Sayings about Democratic
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy – Abraham Lincoln.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme – Aristotle.
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. [...]
Diet Quotes, Sayings about Dieting
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook – Andy Rooney.
One should strive to maintain good health by taking balanced diet and exercising regularly – Atharva Veda.
One should eat to live, not live to eat – Cicero.
Avoid any diet that [...]
Drug Quotes, Sayings about Drugs
Avoid all needle drugs – the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon – Abbie Hoffman.
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie – Anais Nin.
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is – Angel Cordero, Jr.
Of course drugs were fun. And that’s what’s so stupid about anti-drug [...]
Enemies Quotes, Sayings about your Enemy
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have – Abraham Lincoln.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend – Abraham Lincoln.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth – Albert [...]
Failure Quotes, Sayings about Failing
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody – Bill Cosby.
One fails forward toward success – Charles F. Kettering.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God – Charles Horton Cooley.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of [...]
Faith Quotes, Sayings about Believes
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t – Blaise Pascal.
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God – Carter Lindberg.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog – Corrie Ten Boom.
Faith is courage; it is creative while [...]
Father Quotes, Sayings about Fathers
I love my father as the stars – he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart – Adabella Radici.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing – Aldous Huxley.
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was – Anne Sexton.
The place [...]
Forgiveness Quotes, Sayings about Forgiving
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive –
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself – Ausonius.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love – Bryant H. McGill.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were – Cherie [...]
Freedom Quotes, Sayings about Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves – Abraham Lincoln.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular – Adlai Stevenson.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better – Albert Camus.
Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from [...]
Friendship Quotes, Sayings about Friends
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort – Adabella Radici.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive – Anais Nin.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to [...]
Future Quotes, Sayings about Future
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time – Abraham Lincoln.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future – Adolf Hitler.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough – Albert Einstein.
The future is a convenient place for dreams – Anatole France.
As for the [...]
Gambling Quotes, Sayings about Gamblers
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it – Albert Einstein.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling – Ambrose Bierce.
You don’t gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day – Bert Ambrose.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always [...]
Goodbye Quotes, Sayings about Letting Go
Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave – A.A. Milne.
You are the weakest link – goodbye! – Anne Robinson.
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems – Billy Joel.
If you said good-bye [...]
Graduation Quotes, Sayings about Graduating
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! – Andy McIntyre.
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference – Arie Pencovici.
The roots of education are bitter, but the [...]
Happiness Quotes, Sayings about being Happy
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life – Albert Camus.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus.
Success is not the key to happiness. [...]
Imagination Quotes, Sayings about Creativity
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training – Anna Freud.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept – Ansel Adams.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral – Antoine [...]
Inspirational Quotes, Sayings about Inspiration
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty – Adair Lara.
The important thing is to not stop questioning – Albert Einstein.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well – Amos Bronson Alcott.
You create your own destiny – Anon.
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back [...]