Top 100 Quotes About Common Sense
#1. Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense ...
Mark Kostabi
#2. Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
#3. The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.
Oswald Chambers
#4. I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
Robin Hobb
#5. One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
Ken Robinson
#6. The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
Tom Stoppard
#7. There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician. He
Susanna Clarke
#8. Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague
#9. From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
Kelvin Sampson
#10. What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. Rickover
#11. Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means.
Jordan Ellenberg
#12. Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.
Oswald Chambers
#13. The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.
Robert H. Jackson
#14. We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
Henry Miller
#15. If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.
Haruki Murakami
#16. In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
Hack Wilson
#17. This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.
Rick Santorum
#18. All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley
#19. Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.
Rebecca Solnit
#20. She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.
Linda Howard
#21. Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.
Terence Conran
#22. Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#23. Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.
Eraldo Banovac
#24. Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
Lyall Watson
#27. Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.
Martha Stewart
#28. I know," I whispered and when he blinked up, his familiar eyes looking past the surface, burning with everything I felt, I was sucked in, and all common sense was gone.
Theresa Paolo
#29. Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
Richard P. Feynman
#30. Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#31. Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong ... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.
John Ralston Saul
#33. What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
James Anthony Froude
#34. Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.
Bertrand Russell
#35. Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [ ... ] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#36. Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions is an image of the world that sits unhappily between the manifest image and an out of date scientific image.11
James Ladyman
#37. Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
Thomas Huxley
#38. You know what would really help? If men started looking at it like a bank. The more you deposit the more you can withdraw later. Make a woman come as a rule, she's going to be more receptive to regular sex and much more open-minded about what's on the table as far as experimenting. Common sense.
Chloe Cole
#39. The most profound legacy of the dominance of bureaucratic forms of organization over the last two hundred years is that it has made this intuitive division between rational, technical means and the ultimately irrational ends to which they are put seem like common sense.
David Graeber
#40. Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
John C. Bogle
#41. I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#42. No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
John Mortimer
#43. While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.
Mike Ross
#44. The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
Tadashi Yanai
#45. You have the curiosity of a cat and common sense of a goldfish.
Susan Dennard
#47. Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas
#48. Back in the gurdwara, the ceiling doing strange things above my head, Jungli fed me with pieces of orange.
Our outspoken attachment deepened. I was moved by his tenderness, his simplicity and his beautiful eyes. Beauty is a great robber of my common sense.
Sarah Lloyd
#49. A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it's just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it's named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur.
Jarod Kintz
#50. Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
Joseph Joubert
#51. Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.
Ben Carson
#52. The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.
Barack Obama
#53. This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
Mark Rothko
#54. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense.
David Thorne
#55. My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.
Lauren Willig
#56. When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#57. It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#59. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
#60. Deep down, the boringly pragmatic Liberal Party has a sunnier view of human nature than the passionately idealistic Labor Party because we are prepared to put more trust in the common sense and decency of our fellow Australians.
Tony Abbott
#61. If a person is said to have five senses, then whoever has common sense has six.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#64. In effect, vice turns common sense upside-down, and he who admits himself to be vicious abides by stigmatizing terms of horror.
Georges Bataille
#65. Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
James Garner
#66. Americans have long been taught to hate all people who will not or cannot work, to hate even themselves for that. We can thank the vanquished frontier for that piece of common-sense cruelty. The time is coming, if it isn't here now, when it will no longer be common sense. It will simply be cruel.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean.
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN
Chaz Thompson
#68. We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
Fred G. Gosman
#69. With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?
Gabriel Iglesias
#70. They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense.
G.K. Chesterton
#71. You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.
Anne Carson
#72. did she love you?
only as an extension of herself.
what else can love be?
the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.
Charles Bukowski
#73. Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#74. Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
John Dewey
#75. The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
#76. It's good common sense, your grace.'
Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja.
Jennifer Fallon
#77. I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.
Peter Horton
#78. The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
Marvin Ammori
#79. The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
#80. At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
Randy Neugebauer
#82. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#83. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
#84. It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you safe. A world where, if you did the right thing you were allowed to get on with your life in whichever way you chose.
Tabitha McGowan
#85. Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan
#86. The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.
J.K. Rowling
#87. It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Madeline Zima
#88. We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.
Seth Klarman
#89. When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.
Robert H. Lieberman
#90. There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar
#91. I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.
Ken Osmond
#92. Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland
#93. I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Peter Beard
#94. I wasn't ready to leave. Some masochistic shred of my being didn't want to walk away from him yet, even though staying defied logic and common sense.
Pepper Winters
#95. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
Thomas Jefferson
#97. But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
Mitch Albom
#98. Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#100. The heart is a demanding tenant; it frequently makes a strong argument against common sense.
Julie Kibler
