Common-sense Quotes

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think ...

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire ...

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

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than ...

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. ...

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is...

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Threatened men live long.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there i...

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter ...

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disap...

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, them...

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is no...

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Never assume the obvious is true.

So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake th...

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and st...

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that o...

Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of...

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are no...

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to th...

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of p...

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as ...

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of y...

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fort...

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short...

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the no...

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty ...

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted o...

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-...

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

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

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universi...

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or des...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that t...

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