Common Sense Quotes
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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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.
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I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
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Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.
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Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
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Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
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The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.
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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.
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I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in the coming days.
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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
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I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
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It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
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When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.
