Common Sense Quotes

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me. Such is the conduct which until now I have followed and will follow.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Common sense is very uncommon.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.