Skip to content

Uncommon Sense

Pithy sayings and brilliant observations

Tag: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(1900-1944) French writer and aviator

When to act

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 23, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories convictionTags Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Responsibility

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 23, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories adulthoodTags Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 23, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories perfectionTags Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

Authors

  • Authors

Categories

Powered by

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake

Uncommon Sense Proudly powered by WordPress