Quotes about common-sense
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
common-sense stupidity kind
There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity. Evan Esar
common-sense common form
The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.
common-sense problem conservation
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. Gifford Pinchot
common-sense dying stones
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
common-sense common heresy
The heresy of heresies was common sense. George Orwell
common-sense kabbalah pay
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself. Gail Porter
common-sense tails noses
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff. Fergus Henderson
common-sense prophet wit
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. Euripides
common-sense common prophet
Common sense is the best prophet.
common-sense risk management
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense Henry Mintzberg
common-sense common prevision
Common sense is the measure of the possible. Henri Frederic Amiel
common-sense common calculations
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
common-sense justice people
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Cat Stevens
common-sense humanity affair
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. Ernest Bevin
common-sense essentials details
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms. Ha-Joon Chang
common-sense complicated economics
95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.
common-sense common
All of science is largely formalized common sense. Nancy Pearcey
common-sense might able
From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves. Kelvin Sampson
common-sense culture demand
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture. Francis Spufford
common-sense daylight common
Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense. Ian Mcewan
common-sense common uncommon
Common sense is very uncommon. Horace Greeley
common-sense genius common
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. Horace Mann
common-sense acting hard
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. James Garner
common-sense common believer
I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common Iris Apfel
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 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.