Commonsense Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a… — Robert Peston
There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university â€“ it… — Marcus Wareing
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money. — Colin Fletcher
It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are… — Margaret Thatcher
Logic is one thing and commonsense another. — Elbert Hubbard
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren… — Ric Keller
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. — Alfred North Whitehead
Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting… — Jim Sensenbrenner
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States,… — Patricia Hill Collins
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. — Oswald Chambers
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Commonsense is the wick of the candle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. — Elbert Hubbard
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. — Merritt Wever
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. — Mahatma Gandhi
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not… — Talcott Parsons
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. — Mitt Romney
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his… — Theodore Roosevelt

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