If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I support the 2nd Amendment - and our sportsmen and sportswomen throughout Minnesota - and I also believe that we need to… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your… — James Duane Copy Share Image
For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but… — Oscar Munoz Copy Share Image
Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
“Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. — William Hague Copy Share Image
I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I want to be able to use my common sense background and be able to stand up for what I believe is… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Common is uncommon of knowledge. common is to persuade knowledge. common is knowledge's best persuasion. we are uncommon of our knowledge to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who… — George Polya Copy Share Image
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what being a human means, is it to do what other creatures can't do? it's actually means to do… — Tarek Soloman Copy Share Image
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
