Common Sense Quotes
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As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.
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If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
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Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
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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.
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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
