Common Sense Quotes

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Common sense often makes a good law.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

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

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

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.

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

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

Everything should be done with moderation and using common 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.

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.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

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

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

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

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.