Common sense Quotes · Page 17

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

— Bill Jay

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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

— William Rounseville Alger

In a race between common sense, logic and education, my money would be on the good old country boys.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Nonsense and common sense are the twins that nourish imagination and creativity.

— Tasneem Hameed

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

— Samuel Butler

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

— Chuka Umunna

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

— James Reston

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete…

— Chris Gabrieli

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate…

— William O. Douglas

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always…

— Robert De Niro

Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too…

— Richard Harris

“Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles,…

— Gary Hopkins

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common…

— Josh Billings

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and…

— John Lydon

I dont know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. Thats really what I am.…

— Jon Tester

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator. To me, it's always been about collaboration, I've never studied styling or fashion. As far…

— Nicola Formichetti

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First…

— Jeffrey Tayler

“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals…

— G.H. Hardy

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…

— H. L. Mencken

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals…

— Michael Myers

It seems that words get chalked off as something the person said, but isn't that what words are to begin with.

— Gayla Leach

“In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

— Albert Einstein

“People who lack a connection to their gut feeling will always find themselves in a tricky position.”

— Kelly Skeete

Hmmm! I think those who consider themselves extraordinary avoid using common things like common sense tc n ks

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

“In the quest for higher education and learning, we must never leave behind... common sense.”

— José N. Harris

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

— Horace Mann

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

— Temple Grandin

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

— Thomas Huxley

“Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.”

— Jay Lake

“You don’t need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.”

— Eckhart Tolle

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

— Terence

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

— John Wooden

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

— Anonymous

“Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.”

— Trudi Canavan

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

— Charles Caleb Colton