Common Sense Quotes - Page 17

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Science ... is organized common sense.

the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.