Top 50 Use Common Sense Quotes
#1. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.
David Amerland
#2. USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#3. If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.
Haruki Murakami
#4. If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
Steve Chabot
#5. I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.
Eric Holder
#6. Mr. Harris had three boxes of Melba toast, a can of smoked oysters, a wheel of Gouda cheese, two bunches of grapes, a package of smoked salmon, a can of sardines, a bottle of sparkling grape juice and a can of cocktail weenies in his pants. I simply ask you to please use common sense. Thank you.
N.M. Silber
#7. It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.
Aaron Sorkin
#8. Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
Daymond John
#10. We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
Jose Serrano
#11. I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.
Eric Holder
#12. I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !!
Jojo1980
#13. Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.
Tegan Quin
#14. I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#15. Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private ... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
Aristotle.
#16. Men and women have been taught so much about each other that they don't use their common sense et al!
Saurabh Sharma
#17. There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.
Alan Cooper
#18. Use your good common sense. Is anger useful? If you get angry at someone, the result is good neither for you nor for the other person. Nothing helpful comes of it. In the end, anger does not harm others; it hurts yourself.
Dalai Lama XIV
#19. With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
Ronald Reagan
#20. And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
Dorothy Dunnett
#21. When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency ... Sophia something.
Nicola Cornick
#22. 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
#23. My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me to use the excellent brain he gave us all.
Bill Maher
#24. Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Algernon Sidney
#25. It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.
Thomas Noon Talfourd
#26. I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses to grow. Allowing companies to use these tools for capital reinvestment is a common-sense way to encourage job creation.
Pat Tiberi
#27. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."
Robert Baden-Powell
#29. These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer
Donald Knuth
#30. 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
#31. When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.
Salman Rushdie
#32. Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#33. I have no heart?
Perhaps I have not;
But then you're mad to take offence
That I don't give you what I have not got:
Use your own common sense.
Christina Rossetti
#34. Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it.
Gary Hopkins
#35. The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space ... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources.
Pope Benedict XVI
#36. It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.
John Hughes
#37. I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.
Karen Hawkins
#38. I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.
G.K. Chesterton
#39. Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
Fred L. Turner
#40. We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
Samuel Fuller
#41. Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense.
Susan Ee
#42. I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
Joe Barton
#43. You must first believe and trust God, use what he already gave you including common sense, f**k what someone else thinks about you and the rest will come naturally.
Michael James Jackson
#44. Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.
John Hancock
#45. Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?
Georgette Heyer
#46. No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
Peter Slezak
#47. Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.
Bill Murray
#48. nothing is more limited than vice. In that sense one can really use a common expression and say that one is always turning in the same vicious circle. "How
Marcel Proust
#49. The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.
Catherine The Great
#50. Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
Robert Casey