Common Sense Quotes

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Inspiration
  • Liberty
  • Lunatic

• Provides for common sense tax relief in the future. We have the largest surplus in history, which means the taxpayers are being overcharged.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Future
  • Taxpayers

• 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.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Common Sense
  • Remembers

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Common Sense
  • Kind of sense

• 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.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Experience
  • Good Luck
  • Rides

• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Things
  • Achievement

• In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Document
  • Forth
  • Paine

• Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Constructs
  • Invents

• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Belief
  • Novelists

• Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Philosophical

• We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Common Sense
  • Skepticism
  • Communicability

• Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

  

  Ric Keller
  • History
  • Behavior
  • Common Sense

• An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Doubt

• Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Men
  • Intelligence
  • Sensibility

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

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Common Sense
  • Claim
  • Profess

• 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.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Die
  • Health

• There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Humans

• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Children
  • Support
  • Guns

• Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Technology
  • Common Sense
  • Enhance

• Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Education
  • Development
  • Common Sense

• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

  

  Euripides
  • Wit
  • Common Sense
  • Phophet

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Road
  • Financial

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