Common Sense Quotes - Page 14

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

Common sense is genius in homespun.