Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lydon

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Jimmy Carter

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

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

Jimmy Carter

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Terry Pratchett

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er ...

Temple Grandin

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

Lewis Carroll

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Tom Stoppard

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Tina Turner

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.

Steven Seagal

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.

Stuart Chase

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

Richard Aldington

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Julie Gerberding

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,.

Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Sean William Scott

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

Lin Yutang

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Talib Kweli

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

Suzy Kassem

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.

Sting

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

Thomas Jefferson

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Tom Robbins

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Thomas Chalmers

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Rene Magritte

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

Thomas Nagel

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 Paine

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 Huxley

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 Streicher

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 Sowell

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?

Tyler Perry

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.