Famous Quotes & Sayings

We'll start cranking up probably next week. The common mistakes are mostly math errors and (people) forgetting to sign their returns.

What we're trying to do is get you to think. Today is about tactics and using common sense. Everything you do is thinking.

Alexander Pope

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

E. O. Wilson

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do...

E. M. Forster

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Dorothy Day

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Colleen Hoover

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

Dalai Lama

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

Dalai Lama

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Dalai Lama

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

Dalai Lama

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Andrew Weil

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Doris Lessing

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

Don Yaeger

You gotta do common things, uncommonly well.

Cynthia Nixon

You just want to love Tim Matheson and just cuddle him. He's really - and he's gorgeous. He has much in common with [Ronald Reagan] Reagan's outward persona.

Clive James

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

Douglas Hofstadter

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

Donald Trump

If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.

Donald Trump

By the way, that's a far less expensive solution than other very foolish solutions I've heard. The veterans love it, they love it. But it's a far better solution than anything anybody's heard and its common sense and it's there.The doctors need the business and the private hospitals and public hospitals need the business and they're sitting there, waiting. So we don't have a choice. We have to do that.

Anna Lindh

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Andrew Tobias

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

I get page after page of negative balances. The most common mistake I have found is that someone receives parts at the back door and takes them to the shop floor without ever doing the computer transaction.

Robertson Davies

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

Karl Lehmann

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

John Wycliffe

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Rob Bell

Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

Richard P. Feynman

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

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

Scott Pelley

Lt. Col. Ronald Stallings told investigators, quote, 'he had no idea,' end quote, that prisoners were being chained overhead for 24 hours and more. What you seem to be saying is that it was common knowledge.

Mikhail Margelov

One important thing is missing: trust and the understanding that we have a common enemy.

Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there,

Dimitar Sasselov

Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.