Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Quote by Victor Hugo

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Education Quotes

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything,...

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything,...

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy...

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy...

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle...

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle...

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time...

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time...

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as...

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as...

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially...

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially...

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love...

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love...

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing...

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing...

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a...

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a...