Common Sense Quotes

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

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.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

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.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

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.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi