Common Sense Quotes - Page 20

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.