I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the… — William James Copy Share Image
“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
“When interpreted as infallible, the truth claims of powerful institutions — whether religious or secular — tend to emphasise the fallibility of… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine:… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
I did publish a Bill once called "Common Sense" with a new constitution for Europe called the "Commonwealth of Europe," setting it… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life.… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest… — William Carey Copy Share Image
The thing I learnt the most from the Kovalev fight, in all my other fights, when I hurt my opponent I was… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable. Why, anybody can have common… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If… — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
In an industry that has the capacity underutilization that we have, why wouldn't we? It's just common sense. Apparently they're successful (in… — Gerry Lopez Copy Share Image
Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I'm not stupid; I just lack common sense. I'm not a poser; I'm just crazy. I'm not miss popularity; I just have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course,… — Chip Heath & Dan Heath Copy Share Image
It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information,… — Tarleton Gillespie Copy Share Image
...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“But God also helped those who helped themselves, and presumably expected the chosen to bring warm clothing, water purification tablets, basic medication,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image