The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
If you want to be treated like a princess, first you gotta start acting like one. You gotta earn that right. If… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
“I surrender to the predator who has me trapped in his sights. Let him take me. Common sense tries to creep into… — Kendall Grey Copy Share Image
In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you… — Julie Gerberding Copy Share Image
To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Language and emotions are too easily misread. For example, laughing can mean many things: laughing with you or at you. Does that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“It is clear that there are situations where we should restrict a child: letting them ingest poison, for example, would be against… — Marcelo Motta Copy Share Image
For some people, the definition of who is and who isn't an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners,… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us.… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau 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 somebody doesn't use common sense, I get frustrated. When I'm driving down the highway and someone is in the left-hand lane,… — Billy Horschel Copy Share Image
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing… — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about… — Ken Osmond Copy Share Image
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of the nature.… — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
“One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image