Common Sense Quotes

Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

~ An Wang

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

~ Victor Hugo

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Common sense is very uncommon. It is also shaped by your education.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

~ Kedar Joshi

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

~ William Thomson

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

~ Mark Warner

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

~ Richard Diaz

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

~ Jürgen Habermas

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

~ Don Delillo

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

~ Connie Kerbs

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

~ Henry Kissinger

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

~ Karl Pilkington

God gave you brain so that you can give him rest.

~ Wheto Joseph Seyon

If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still publishing them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, one ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning?

~ Suzy Kassem

If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still registering them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning? Think, people. I am only asking you to THINK.

~ Suzy Kassem

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

~ Clifford Cohen

Don’t let your consciousness polluted by the sheen of the clothing. White, black, brown or any color of the skin is nothing but the clothing we are born with and remember that eventually we all are connected dots of this universe through our souls.

~ Ankitmishra

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

~ Oswald Chambers

What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!

~ Dada Bhagwan

A ‘sensitive’ person will not have common sense.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How does ‘common sense’ arise? Through conflicts. During conflicts, if one does not clash with anyone, even if the other person comes clashing with him, he should not clash with him. If one is able to remain this way, ‘common sense’ will arise. Otherwise, whatever ‘common sense’ there is, it too will disappear!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As long as you try to think intelligently, you have missed the point.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

{She] ain’t got the sense God gave a goat.

~ Pam Hillman

The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

~ Chris Weedon

When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.

~ Robert H. Lieberman

Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.

~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.

~ Jeannette Walls

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

~ George Harrison

One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.

~ Gillian Duce

Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music.

~ Yvonne Prinz

To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.

~ Suzy Kassem

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

~ Hope Mirrlees