The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. Votes: 2
Nancy PearceyProbability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. Votes: 0
Pierre-Simon LaplaceSimplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. Votes: 0
Ingvar KampradCommon sense without education, is better than education without common sense. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinAn appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense. Votes: 0
Tasha AlexanderMy philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things. Votes: 0
Dolly PartonConscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. Votes: 0
Margaret DelandJohn Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellCommon sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic Votes: 0
Antoine ArnauldCommon sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. Votes: 0
Horace MannIt isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. Votes: 0
Francoise SaganWhat is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common. Votes: 0
CrimethInc.Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeThis world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. Votes: 0
Mark RothkoThe greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance. Votes: 0
Owen FelthamToday different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense. Votes: 0
Dalai LamaSelf-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. Votes: 0
Margaret DelandIn January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. Votes: 0
Mike CrapoConscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing Votes: 0
Margaret DelandCommon sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellTheologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense Votes: 0
Georg Christoph LichtenbergCommon sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone Votes: 0
Edgar Watson HoweScience is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it. Votes: 0
Willard Van Orman QuineSociety is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTheologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergCommon sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinEveryone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinPeople in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life. Votes: 0
Amit KalantriWe must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense. Votes: 0
Kenny GuinnEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinCommon sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinRich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonFalling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Votes: 0
Helen RowlandWe cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarterPreservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganCommon sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinCommon sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. Votes: 0
VoltaireWork hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts. Votes: 0
Fred L. TurnerCommon sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. Votes: 0
Margaret MillarThere's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Votes: 0
Alan CooperCommon Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciFor all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense. Votes: 0
John WilmotNothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. Votes: 0
VoltaireCommunism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity. Votes: 0
William C. BrownI hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenI don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThere are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense. Votes: 0
George William FooteHistorical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Votes: 0
Samuel Eliot MorisonIt is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'. Votes: 0
Savielly TartakowerHistorical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Votes: 0
Samuel E. MorisonCommon sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. Votes: 0
Evan EsarThe problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. Votes: 0
Fred ThompsonWe have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense Votes: 0
Samuel FullerFaith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardCommon sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison. Votes: 0
Dana GouldSpaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. Votes: 0
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroHe uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoNothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. Votes: 0
Baron d'HolbachConservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. Votes: 0
Gifford PinchotWe have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. Votes: 0
Samuel FullerIf we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesThe gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense. Votes: 0
Dana GouldTo act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. Votes: 0
Horace WalpoleI believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion. Votes: 0
Heidi KlumIt's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. Chestertoncommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. Votes: 0
Susanne Katherina LangerIn the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record. Votes: 0
Gavin ExtenceA common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. Votes: 0
Fred HoyleIt makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies. Votes: 0
Gerhard SchroderIn contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. Votes: 0
Lin YutangYoung love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense. Votes: 0
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultIn life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense. Votes: 0
Hack WilsonAlways maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPoverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonCommon sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it. Votes: 0
Ric KellerNo brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. Votes: 0
John MortimerLost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks. Votes: 0
Love The Stacks BookstorePoverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyI want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense. Votes: 0
Rene MagritteCommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweI can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonCommon sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business. Votes: 0
Ehab AtallaIt has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltMy success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. Votes: 0
Helen Gurley BrownWe know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. Votes: 0
Roland BarthesNo race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonAbility to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense. Votes: 0
Gene SpaffordTruthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense Votes: 0
Talib KweliIt defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. Votes: 0
Robert TaftGood judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door. Votes: 0
John WoodenOur lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither. Votes: 0
Christmas HumphreysIn any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. Votes: 0
James RestonSometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. Votes: 0
Temple GrandinIn so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble. Votes: 0
Gabrielle DennisWith all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense? Votes: 0
Gabriel IglesiasSwimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense! Votes: 0
George CarlinIn any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. Votes: 0
James Reston, Jr.Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. Votes: 0
Christopher LaschUsing, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. Votes: 0
Joseph PriestleyThe single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny. Votes: 0
Brian TracyCommon sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamLearning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Votes: 0
William HazlittOur best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. Votes: 0
David DeutschIf we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. Votes: 0
Annie DillardIf you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. Votes: 0
Joan CrawfordExperience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. Votes: 0
R. D. LaingIf common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars Votes: 0
Francisco Largo CaballeroLet us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireI tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks. Votes: 0
Sean William ScottIf you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area. Votes: 0
Toba BetaI always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense. Votes: 0
Wayne BradyCommon sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsThe rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. Votes: 0
William HazlittThe voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerWhat we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Votes: 0
Adam CarollaI tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks. Votes: 0
Seann William ScottDo not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesDo not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain. Votes: 0
Katherine McIntyreCommon sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertI don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardGods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. Votes: 0
Chapman CohenWhen your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs. Votes: 0
Hiroki KurodaNo, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. Votes: 0
Anne BronteWhat, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in? Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneCommon sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsI'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate. Votes: 0
Vince McMahonGive the children love, more love and still more love â and the common sense will come by itself. Votes: 0
Astrid LindgrenGive a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. Votes: 0
John le CarreOne must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyI'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common Votes: 0
Iris ApfelFar be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on. Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonWithout a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense
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