Common Sense Quotes

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

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

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

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

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.