Common Sense Quotes - Page 2

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?