Common Sense Quotes

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today;
but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me. Such is the conduct which until now I have followed and will follow.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity.
Honesty can be called gullibility.
Candor becomes lack of common sense.
Interest in your work can be called cowardice.
Generosity can be called soft-headedness,
and observe : the former is disturbing

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Passion should always trump common sense.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.