#common

Nowadays 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

#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem. ↗

— George Harrison

#peace #reason #violence #violence

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#common #communism #democracy #philosophy #radical

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. ↗

— Confucius

#simplicity #simplicity

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#unity #community

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#common sense #more #nothing #sense #than

Common sense is as rare as genius. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#common-sense

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#common-sense

Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill. ↗