Common Sense Quotes

• I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Respect
  • Safe
  • Second Amendment

• No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Conversation
  • Ghost
  • Common Sense

• 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.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Pray
  • Common Sense
  • Irony

• Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It’s not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It’s not so much about what you lose; it’s about what you gain.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Smart
  • Commitment
  • Logic

• There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Stupidity
  • Common Sense
  • Varieties

• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • History
  • Government
  • Problems

• No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Surprise
  • Common Sense
  • Thank You

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

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Humanity
  • Common Sense
  • Foreign Policy

• I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

  

  John Calvin
  • Truth
  • Common Sense
  • Jew

• Common sense is not too common.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Common Sense

• Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

  

  John Edward Christopher Hill
  • Young
  • Old
  • Common Sense

• A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Ideas
  • Attitude
  • Optimism

• This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Magic
  • Conversation
  • Common Sense

• People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • People
  • Nation
  • Common Sense

• Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

  

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
  • Age
  • Common Sense
  • Spite

• What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Common Sense

• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Modification

• 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.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Man
  • Things
  • Common Sense

• What was the nature of the answers, the solutions, that Jonah caused us to develop? They all had one thing in common. They all made common sense, and at the same time, they flew directly in the face of everything I’d ever learned. Would we have had the courage to try to implement them if it weren’t for the fact that we’d had to sweat to construct them? Most probably not. If it weren’t for the conviction that we gained in the struggle—for the ownership that we developed in the process—I don’t think we’d actually have had the guts to put our solutions into practice.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Practice
  • Learned
  • Solutions

• Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Imagination
  • Common Sense

• Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Praise
  • Conclusion
  • Common Sense

• Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Defense
  • Common Sense
  • Allow

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