“The common man, he is the uncommon man”
Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
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Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”
Sir Robert Peel
Biographical Studies (1907)
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Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
From an article originally published in the February 6, 1949 issue of "This Week" Magazine, from "Addresses Upon the American Road,Volume: Volume 8: 1955-1960." Developed in speech entitled "Moral and Spiritual Recovery from War" presented October 13, 1945, at 75th Anniversary of Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. "The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath", edited by George Nash
The Uncommon Man
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
“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.
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“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) American theologian and writer
" Wanted, a Statesman! http://books.google.com/books?id=oSNYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+politician%22+%22is+a+man+who+thinks+of+the+next+election+while+the+statesman+thinks+of+the+next+generation%22&pg=PA644#v=onepage", Old and New magazine, December 1870.
Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) ( Project Gutenberg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/gsens10.txt), preface <br class="br">Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.