Common sense Quotes · Page 18

It's kind of ironic how common sense isn't common at all.

— Anonymous

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

— Alexander Pope

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

— Rene Descartes

“Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The board’s “Deep Common Sense” leads toward “Effective Judgment.”

— pearl zhu

“The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.”

— Jennifer Shong

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

— Adam Carolla

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy…

— William Graham Sumner

“Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no…

— Marvin Ammori

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

— Dalai Lama

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust…

— Benjamin Spock

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let…

— Ray Bradbury

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every…

— Ted Cruz

“There are many professions that require individuals, on an ongoing basis, to pass drug tests, physicals and psychological evaluations in order to…

— Gary Hopkins

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in…

— Criss Jami

Americans voted for Trump in 2016 precisely because he is a pit bull, a barbarian, a gun-slinger they hired to fight the…

— Miranda Devine

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's…

— Bobby Flay

“A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since…

— Issac Asimov

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common…

— Henry David Thoreau

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all…

— Thomas Reid

If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of…

— Michio Kaku

“A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

— John le Carre

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

— Kin Hubbard

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

— Fred Thompson

“Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.”

— Anthony Liccione

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

— Mike Tyson

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

— Christiane Collage

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Don't assume that you have succeeded until you get the result.

— Diamond Oluwole

“Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“Another huge advantage that humans have is good old common sense.”

— Andrew McAfee

I know your feelings for me ain't the same, you ask, how do I know this ? common sense.

— Sam Marcellin

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

— Steve Chabot

“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”

— Victor Hugo

I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

— Taylor Sheridan

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

— Albert Einstein