Quotes About Commonsense

#1. Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on.

Jules Verne

#2. Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.

Gerry Harvey

#4. While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

Jim Ryun

#5. E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

Adam Hasner

#6. My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Wayne Dyer

#7. We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to Him; instead of this we make our commonsense decisions and ask God to bless them.

Oswald Chambers

#8. Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

Colin Fletcher

#9. Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. Love, at its best, wipes commonsense
Away. Much as drops will condense
From hidden liquid in the air,
So, too, do lovers soon compare
Their temp'ratures til, happily,
Their judgement fogs up suddenly.

McKenzie Bodkin

#11. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Merritt Wever

#13. Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Samuel Morse

#14. It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

Margaret Thatcher

#15. What's most aggravating is feeling like I'm a radical for saying something so commonsense.

Arielle Greenberg

#16. I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

Carly Fiorina

#17. Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

Ray Kurzweil

#18. Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Oswald Chambers

#19. Goal setting is commonsense; you don't waste fuel traveling for miles to an imaginary destination.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.

Richard Dawkins

#21. Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do

Jerome K. Jerome

#23. The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#24. King Solomon did not have a university degree, but had a doctorate in commonsense.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. We should get in the habit of continually seeking His counsel on everything, instead of making our own commonsense decisions and then asking Him to bless them.

Oswald Chambers

#26. The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

Talcott Parsons

#27. I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.

Robert James Thomson

#28. There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

Mike Quigley

#29. I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, I'll be fucked if fear will.

Mark Lawrence

#30. Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. Nature battles against us sometimes, and it can be hard. Our souls seek a soul mate and our bodies seek to procreate. You need to be wise and self controlled and not put yourself in a place where nature might overcome your commonsense.

M.H. Strom

#32. By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

Mitt Romney

#33. The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense tomorrow.

Adolf Meyer

#34. I had been right, this was just the sort of place where superstition and tittle-tattle were rife, and even allowed to hold sway over commonsense. Now,

Susan Hill

#35. Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Elbert Hubbard

#38. Progressives start small. They introduce 'commonsense' regulations and restrictions that will supposedly save lives. Then, each time the public's attention is captured, they push further.

Glenn Beck

#39. Love is the universal panacea; it cures things even commonsense cannot.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#40. Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice. It could just be a bit of commonsense said in a way that resonates with something in you. It's nothing new, but because it connects with you it holds meaning for you.

Chetan Bhagat

#41. Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.

Daniel Yankelovich

#42. Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#43. When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

Martin Amis

#44. The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

Tim Ferriss

#45. Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

Jerry Pournelle

#46. I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

Ric Keller

#47. Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#50. The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

Michael Enzi

#51. Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense.

Georgette Heyer

#52. There is a kind of wisdom that grows in the heart from living in places such as you have been. It builds integrity and strong character. ~Then'diel

K. Farrell St. Germain

#53. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#54. Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

Shannon L. Alder

#55. Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

Shannon L. Alder

#60. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#61. You can't expect the impossible to happen if you don't meet the impossible half way.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.

Shannon L. Alder

#63. Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

Shannon L. Alder

#64. A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

Shannon L. Alder

#65. I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.

David Joseph Cribbin

#66. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder