My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.” — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still registering them at… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. — Persian Proverb Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. — Thomas Jefferson 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
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners,… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships… — Nicholas Rodger 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
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If you were inactive due to an injury or a surgery, then common sense rules the day when inching closer to the… — Gunnar Peterson Copy Share Image