Common Sense Quotes

The fifth sense is common sense- either you have it or you don't.

~ Jennifer Shong

I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.

~ Rebecca Stead

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous society, and all his life could be as open and sunny as the square beneath him. He had, on the other other hand, only to keep his antiquated honour, and be delivered inch by inch into the power of this great enemy of mankind, whose very intellect was a torture-chamber. Whenever he looked down into the square he saw the comfortable policeman, a pillar of common sense and common order. Whenever he looked back at the breakfast-table he saw the President still quietly studying him with big, unbearable eyes.

~ G.k. Chesterton

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

~ David Harvey

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

~ Thomas Paine

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

~ Julian Barnes

Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.

~ Mango Wodzak

Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.

~ L.m. Fields

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go.

~ Henry V. O'neil

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

~ Wazim Shaw

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

~ Francis Cornwallis Maude

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.

~ Siobhán Parkinson

intuition is always right in at least two important ways,It is always in response to something.it always has your best interest at heart

~ Gavin De Becker

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

~ Nancy Pearcey

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

~ Jeannette Walls

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

~ Paulo Coelho

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

~ Holly Robinson

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

~ Roland Barthes

Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss, yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior:Common sense is not common action.

~ Shawn Achor

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

Let me tell you something you probably already know. It's that second cord that should remain in the neck of the bottle. You can liberate 1, but two bottles of wine for 2 people is 1 bottle too many. There was a reason the French bottled wine the way they did. 2 and a half glasses was plenty of wine for 2 people to consume with dinner. But that's not how it went with us.

~ Dorothea Benton Frank

Let me tell you something you probably already know. It's that second cork that should remain in the neck of the bottle. You can liberate 1, but two bottles of wine for 2 people is 1 bottle too many. There was a reason the French bottled wine the way they did. 2 and a half glasses was plenty of wine for 2 people to consume with dinner. But that's not how it went with us.

~ Dorothea Benton Frank

It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

~ Gary Hopkins

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.

~ Kelly Moran

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

~ Jerome

Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

no one is absolutely free from the woes of life. Not even the one who thinks he is free from the uncertainties of life. Difficulties, challenges, problems and the puzzles of life are a must meet for all and sundry, be it small or enormous, and they are what separate the rich from the poor, the masters from the servants, the wonder from the wander and the givers from the beggars. Our ability to be firm and overcome the storms of life shall enlighten our light to make us different. In life, you either solve that problem or you always have that problem. People are uncommon because they overcome the common problems with common sense and tenacity. If you live your life without providing a panacea to a problem each day, ponder!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

~ Carolyn Wells

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

~ Masuji Ibuse

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~ Anne Carson

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

~ Gertrude Stein

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

~ Sarah Palin