Common Sense Quotes

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

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

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

Common sense ain't common.

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

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Common sense is not so common.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Common sense is not too common.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Common sense is the best prophet.