I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.” — Lacie Baskerville Pandora Hearts Copy Share Image
In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it sounds awfully simplistic, but I have often thought how much better off our country would be if sometimes we left… — Mike Ramsdell Copy Share Image
“Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Americans, and only Americans, should decide our elections. That's just common sense and foundational to our democracy. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's the manager's job to always knock on the door, to always strive to improve, but there has to be a reasonable… — Steve Bruce Copy Share Image
Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Common sense is the measureof the possible; it is composedof experience and prevision; itis calculation appled to life. — Henri Frédéric Amiel Swiss Philosopher Copy Share Image
From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I'm running to offer common sense, fiscal conservative, conservationist representation our 1st District used to have and can again. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
“Remember that common sense is not common practice, and that people who succeed are often those who do the little, everyday things… — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common… — John Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but… — Holly Robinson Copy Share Image
“She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called… — Kate Gordon Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image