Common Sense Quotes

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

Common sense ain't common.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

If the grass is greener on the other side it's probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Threatened men live long.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.