Common Sense Quotes

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

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

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.