Common Sense Quotes

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.