Best Common Sense Quotes
904 Common Sense quotes by 683 unique authors
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless…
— Richard Lamm
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By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
— Charlie Chaplin
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
— Annie Dillard
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I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
— John C. Bogle
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The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the…
— Alan Grayson
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a…
— Oswald Chambers
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
— Richard Dawkins
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A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized…
— Napoleon Hill
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The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
— Winston Churchill
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We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God
— George W. Bush
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
— Joseph Joubert
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If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the…
— Henry A. Wallace
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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced…
— Sabrina Lloyd
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
— Al McGuire
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at…
— Thomas Huxley
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
— Norman O. Brown
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
— Giambattista Vico
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
— Agnes Repplier
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed…
— Owen Feltham
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little…
— Walter Bagehot
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In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the…
— Thomas Paine
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