Quotes and Sayings About Common Sense
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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.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
-- Agnes RepplierSource : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”
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The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
-- Al McGuire -
The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants who already live in our communities, work for our businesses and want to give back to the country that they call home.
-- Alan Grayson -
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
-- Alan Watts -
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
-- Albert Einstein -
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
-- Alexander Pope -
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science-and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.
-- Alexandre KoyreSource : "Galileo to Plato". Journal of the History of Ideas, 1957.
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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.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
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The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
-- Alfred Adler -
Common sense is genius in homespun.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.
-- Alice WatersSource : Alice Waters (2010). “In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart”, p.10, Clarkson Potter
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I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back
-- Amanda KnoxSource : "Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything's at stake'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. September 20, 2013.
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
-- Andrew Mellon -
What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
-- Andrew TobiasSource : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
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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.
-- Anna SewellSource : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
-- Anna Sui -
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
-- Anne Bronte -
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.
-- Anne Royall -
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.
-- Anthony Weiner -
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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.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.
-- Antonio GramsciSource : Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Prison Notebooks”, p.173, Columbia University Press