A Quote by Confucius

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

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

George Dana Boardman Pepper

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Confucius

I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

Milton Mayer

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

Peter Redgrove

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Marya Mannes

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

S.M. Stirling

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

Maria Montessori

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Arlo Guthrie

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

Rosellen Brown

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

Tony Dungy

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

Charles Spurgeon

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Colin Wilson

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