Common Sense Quotes
With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.
A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.
You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
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.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.
The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.
It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.