We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common… — Peter Horton Copy Share Image
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the… — Dag Heward-Mills Copy Share Image
His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In the long run, it is much easier to undo the policies of crooked leadership than to restore common sense and wisdom… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
While the Washington swamp, which loves shipping American jobs offshore to make a buck or Euro, is already rising up against the… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
“My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We were very strategic in involving people in our wedding that had great common sense as it pertains to matrimony, which is… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back Struck from a great height By someone who should know better than that — Florence And The Machines Copy Share Image
“Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
An Ounce Of Common Sense Is Worth A Pound Of Theory; A Practical Common Sense Approach Is Often Far More Effective Than… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart;… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it’s right… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
“when people’s brains are in defensive mode, it becomes harder to see common sense. Small disagreements can end up holding back progress… — Caroline Webb Copy Share Image
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense -… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image