Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Josiah Warren

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

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 ...

Terrence Howard

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.

Temple Grandin

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

Sha Zukang

The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.

Len Goodman

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

Marcus Aurelius

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Marcus Aurelius

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

Roy Barnes

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Robert Penn Warren

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

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.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

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.

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.

Tom Robbins

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

Tom Bodett

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

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.