Quotes about common-sense
common-sense disposition ill
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! John Lydon
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 able pandemics
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. Julie Gerberding
common-sense genius comedy
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings
common-sense genius comedy
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
common-sense common knows
Common sense is the best sense I know of.
common-sense perfect feelings
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense. Luther Burbank
common-sense laughing people
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense. Tyler Perry
common-sense world want
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense. Rene Magritte
common-sense psychology ordinary
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded. Thomas Nagel
common-sense common
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us. Thomas Paine
common-sense prejudice sound-judgment
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
common-sense funeral police
The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense. Thomas Streicher
common-sense made theory
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else? Thomas Sowell
common-sense church care
I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right from the start! They call God he instead of she and all three would like to burn me at the stake for saying that! Roseanne Barr
common-sense house citizens
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. Robert Silverberg
common-sense superstitions epithet
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
common-sense community leader
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves. Werner Erhard
common-sense pistols use
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense Samuel Fuller
common-sense people needs
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises. Sally Ride
common-sense upset world
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world. Vincent Bugliosi
common-sense way life-is
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
common-sense said uncommon
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Thomas Chalmers
common-sense political politics
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. Sting
common-sense autism too-much
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. Temple Grandin
common-sense records rhyme
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense Talib Kweli
common-sense kind speak
Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change. Suzy Kassem
common-sense important should
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important. Steven Seagal
common-sense principles kind
I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct. Tom Stoppard
common-sense giving worry
If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give. Tina Turner
common-sense mind mediocrity
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. Tom Robbins