Common Quotes - Page 41

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Science ... is organized common sense.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.