Quotes about common-sense
common-sense results worthy
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results. E. W. Howe
common-sense feminist hated
I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life. Doris Lessing
common-sense dancing common
A sense of humour is common sense dancing. Clive James
common-sense craziness should
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent. Douglas Hofstadter
common-sense body lines
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health. Andrew Weil
common-sense giving kind
What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack. Andrew Tobias
common-sense half fine
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. Alexander Pope
common-sense intuition earth
Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do... E. O. Wilson
common-sense people dying
If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense. Donald Trump
common-sense trying heroic
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. Dorothy Day
common-sense people support
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support. Dalai Lama
common-sense way humans
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
common-sense together today
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
common-sense heaven earth
Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place! David Berg
common-sense lincoln provide voice
There is a need for a common-sense voice in Lincoln. I want to provide that voice for Lincoln County.
common-sense important logic
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable. Bertrand Russell
common-sense common englishmen
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
common-sense car alternatives
And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism. Jimmy Carter
common-sense substitutes resorts
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
common-sense energy conservation
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
common-sense found grain
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew. John Calvin
common-sense fur common
Never buy a fur from a vegetarian. Joan Rivers
common-sense innovation problem
Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society. Joseph A. Schumpeter
common-sense imagine mathematics
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. Lord Kelvin
common-sense truth-is uncommon
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. Lord Chesterfield
common-sense sticks reason
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks. Fred Thompson
common-sense liberty violence
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. Norman O. Brown
common-sense common omniscient
Common sense is almost as omniscient as God. Emily Dickinson
common-sense advantage sensible
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
common-sense trying common
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
common-sense common no-common-sense
There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense. Henry David Thoreau
common-sense mind body
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
common-sense risk management
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense Henry Mintzberg