Uncommon

Famous quotes containing the word uncommon:

“Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,—for there must be subordination,—but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)