Common Sense Quotes

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

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

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

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

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The Bible is common-sense inspired.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

common sense is the enemy of romance

Common sense is not always common practice.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Common sense ain't common.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.