Common sense Quotes · Page 26

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

— Albert Einstein

I'd rather walk over puddles full of fears, then to walk over rivers full of tears.

— Zabi Khojazada

“Just because it’s common sense,’ he says of the process, ‘doesn’t mean it’s common practice.”

— James Kerr

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

— Samuel Smiles

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

— Anonymous

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Common sense is so rare, it should be classified as a super power.

— Anonymous

Don't be afraid of getting hurt, be afraid of losing all common sense, settling & failing to see the obvious.

— Anonymous

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

— William M. Daley

“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”

— René Descartes

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and…

— Patrick Lencioni

Virginia can become competitive again by advancing common-sense solutions to get our jobs machine cranked up again.

— Glenn Youngkin

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

— Bill Murray

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground…

— Alan Chadwick

“The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.”

— Blaise Pascal

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and…

— John C. Bogle

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should…

— David Mamet

“To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and…

— Suzy Kassem

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he…

— Umberto Eco

The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships…

— Nicholas Rodger

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I…

— Paul Tonko

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those…

— Rene Descartes

The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.…

— Michael Robotham

“Frankly speaking, for generations of Americans, racist ideas have been their common sense.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense.”

— Susan Ee

“But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

— Matthew Arnold

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I just found out that common sense died a while back. that explains a lot...

— Melchor Lim

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

— Will Rogers

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

— John Corabi

“Someone said it right 'common sense is not common'. #assholeseverywhere”

— Lovely Goyal

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

— Anonymous

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

— Thomas Huxley

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

— Mike Evans

Same day voter registration is just common sense and a proven way to increase voter participation.

— Dean Phillips

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Simple people always use common sense. Crazy people always use specialized knowledge.”

— Joey Lawsin