Common Sense Quotes

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

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.

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

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

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

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

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.

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

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.