Confucius Quotes
A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
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no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.
Ted Dekker
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.
Andrew Solomon
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
Lou Holtz
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The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
William Shakespeare
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There's room for everybody - it's not the Olympics. I'd like to be on top, but if the album's successful, that's good enough.
Joe Elliott
Def Leppard
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On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.
A. Curtiss
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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
Eric Maisel
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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
Confucius
