Common Quotes - Page 21

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

There are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.