Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Eric Hoffer

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Lord Chesterfield

Common sense is the best sense I know of.

Luther Burbank

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Ellen Page

I find a lot of people say, "Oh organic and local's expensive and I just don't have time." And I'm like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Ellen Page

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ronald Reagan

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

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?

Roseanne Barr

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!

Robert Silverberg

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.

William Carey

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Wendell Berry

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Werner Erhard

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.

Samuel Fuller

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

Sally Ride

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.

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.

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.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

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.

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.

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.