Common Sense Quotes - Page 6

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

The Bible is common-sense inspired.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.