Common Sense Quotes
I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos
She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.
Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.
In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.
common sense is embedded in common things
Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.
Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.
Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense, ' advocating independence from Great Britain.
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!
What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?
There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).
The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
I can see education is everywhere, and many people were educated. But I realize that common sense is not that common.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.
The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.
Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.
Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.