Quotes about common-sense
common-sense said uncommon
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Thomas Chalmers
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 mind mediocrity
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. Tom Robbins
common-sense world flats
Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat. Stuart Chase
common-sense earth paradise
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. Richard Aldington
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 superstitions epithet
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
common-sense political politics
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. Sting
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 sticks common
Have common sense and stick to the point. W. Somerset Maugham
common-sense novelists belief
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
common-sense church unions
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other. William O. Douglas