Common sense Quotes · Page 18

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

— Anonymous

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

— Thomas Huxley

“What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.”

— Stephan Labossiere

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

— Al McGuire

“There was little that common sense and hard work couldn't accomplish.”

— Karen Hawkins

“Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]”

— Juvenal

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

— Bruce Braley

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures…

— Friedrich Engels

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and…

— Franz Grillparzer

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and…

— Henry David Thoreau

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would…

— Edwin Land

“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it…

— D.E. Navarro

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without…

— Giorgio de Chirico

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or…

— Frances Perkins

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

We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is…

— Matteo Salvini

“It is clear that there are situations where we should restrict a child: letting them ingest poison, for example, would be against…

— Marcelo Motta

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating…

— John Kasich

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also…

— Simon Cowell

“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

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints…

— Alfie Kohn

Language and emotions are too easily misread. For example, laughing can mean many things: laughing with you or at you. Does that…

— Michio Kaku

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

— Gavin Extence

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

— William Osler

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

— Maira Kalman

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

— Iris Apfel

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN”

— Pam Grout

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

— Stephen Jackson

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

— Samuel Butler

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

— Joseph Joubert

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

— Anonymous

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

— Julian Casablancas

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

— Masuji Ibuse

“Does it make any sense if you say hot coffee is hot, Isn't it the least you wish for.”

— I Love the way you love me

A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

— Albert H. Morehead