Common Quotes - Page 39

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.

It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the same. But we got different aspects of things. Certain things are what they call common sense. Allah made it like that meaning there's only one mind, be we all occupy it. Some of us dig into it a little deeper. Some of us are lazy on it. There's only one right and one wrong.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.

The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

The sea is certainly common to all.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.