Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
Joan Crawford

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire