"Parole de Socrate", as quoted in The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations (1998), edited by C. Robertson
“Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
Context: Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.
Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux
Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
“The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 13, “I Am Naumi/On Thairy” (p. 96)
“Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.”
Ben Horowitz (1966) American businessman
Forbes: "5 Obstacles That Inspired Me To Innovate" https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2018/06/28/5-obstacles-that-inspired-me-to-innovate/#8f06bb42b77f (28 June 2018)
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.
Misattributed
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
