Quotes about common-sense
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense brain important
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear. Diane von Furstenberg
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense people cynical
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
common-sense able bats
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. Charlie Munger
common-sense quality levels
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic. Charles Sanders Peirce
common-sense common plenty
I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. Bill Watterson
common-sense whiskey handle
You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. Bill Murray
common-sense people use
Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.
common-sense common
Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense. Benjamin Spock
common-sense experts common
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
common-sense care dignity
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself Carolyn Wells
common-sense energy reforms seeks shore undermine
Once again, environmentalist scare-mongering seeks to undermine common-sense reforms that shore up our energy infrastructure.
common-sense gained venture
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
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 leave lying safety weights
If you leave weights lying around, it's not just inconvenient. It's a safety issue. It should be a common-sense thing.
common-sense common
You have to have the common sense. Ivana Trump
common-sense paper crime
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. Jack Kevorkian
common-sense measure metro proposal school sees
He sees the Metro bus-service proposal as a common-sense, cost-saving measure for the school district.
common-sense few ourselves partisan principles transcend
In repudiating extremism, we need to recommit ourselves to a few common-sense principles that should transcend partisan differences. Jimmy Carter
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Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. Robert Kiyosaki
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 paine left
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. Christopher Lasch
common-sense community progress
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
common-sense natural wit
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. Franz Grillparzer
common-sense age common
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. George Will