Common Sense Quotes

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Common sense is the best prophet.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Common sense needs to be more common.

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

You have to have the common sense.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.