Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment,… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Immigration, ladies and gentlemen, is not an entitlement. Yet that's how it is treated by the Democrats, by the Drive-By Media. That's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
“I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this?… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
“One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we… — Daniel C. Peterson Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In the long run, it is much easier to undo the policies of crooked leadership than to restore common sense and wisdom… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude:… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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