It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
As a father, small businessman, Navy intelligence veteran, and co-founder of a public charter school, I'm ready to bring common-sense solutions to… — Ryan Frazier Copy Share Image
“Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense” — Buda Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
“For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles,… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody said I was nuts for going out to California and trying to be an actor, but I think you can apply… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.… — Marc Jampole Copy Share Image
“Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you feel so much that common sense goes out the window. The important thing moving forward is that you’re making the… — Heidi McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
