Quotes about common-sense
common-sense serious genius
Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson
common-sense earth looks
I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks. Sean William Scott
common-sense logic spirit
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. Lin Yutang
common-sense people magic
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 ... Terry Pratchett
common-sense common
Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
common-sense innovation problem
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
common-sense perfect feelings
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense. Luther Burbank
common-sense records rhyme
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense Talib Kweli
common-sense kind speak
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. Suzy Kassem
common-sense common ghost
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation Lewis Carroll
common-sense able pandemics
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. Julie Gerberding
common-sense genius comedy
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings
common-sense genius comedy
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
common-sense imagine mathematics
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. Lord Kelvin
common-sense truth-is uncommon
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. Lord Chesterfield
common-sense sticks reason
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks. Fred Thompson
common-sense mixtures uncommon
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. John Masefield
common-sense disposition ill
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! John Lydon
common-sense trying use
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
common-sense basics our-future
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. Joan Blades
common-sense world needs
The world is in need of less religion and more common sense. Llewelyn Powys
common-sense honest sometimes
Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them. Thomas Jefferson
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 funeral police
The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense. Thomas Streicher
common-sense made theory
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else? Thomas Sowell
common-sense political politics
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. Sting
common-sense superstitions epithet
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
common-sense guy common
I'm a common-sense kind of guy. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
common-sense autism too-much
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. Temple Grandin
common-sense said uncommon
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Thomas Chalmers