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

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Example Quotes, Society Quotes

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

Men are respectable only as they respect

Men are respectable only as they respect

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Happy is the house that shelters a friend

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they...

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they...

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and...

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and...

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language