Top Common Sense Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Common Sense quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Fred Thompson
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
- Fred Thompson
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Image of Nancy Pearcey
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
- Nancy Pearcey
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Image of M.M. Kaye
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
- M.M. Kaye
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Image of David Thorne
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense
- David Thorne
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Image of Rand Paul
Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
- Rand Paul
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Image of Ben Nelson
Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.
- Ben Nelson
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Image of Mark Rothko
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
- Mark Rothko
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Image of George Will
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
- George Will
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Image of Robert Silverberg
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
- Robert Silverberg
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Image of Francis Spufford
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
- Francis Spufford
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Image of Josephine Tey
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
- Josephine Tey
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Image of Iris Apfel
I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common
- Iris Apfel
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Image of Thomas Chalmers
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Thomas Chalmers
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Image of Henry Mintzberg
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
- Henry Mintzberg
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Image of Benjamin Spock
Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
- Benjamin Spock
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Image of Benjamin Spock
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
- Benjamin Spock
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Image of PZ Myers
Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower
- PZ Myers
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Image of Llewelyn Powys
The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.
- Llewelyn Powys
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Image of Gene Spafford
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
- Gene Spafford
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Image of Susanne Katherina Langer
common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
- Susanne Katherina Langer
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Image of Geert Wilders
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
- Geert Wilders
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Image of Stuart Chase
Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.
- Stuart Chase
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Image of Ha-Joon Chang
95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.
- Ha-Joon Chang
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Image of Francois Guizot
Common sense is the genius of mankind.
- Francois Guizot
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Image of Kelvin Sampson
From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
- Kelvin Sampson
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Image of Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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Image of Richard Aldington
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
- Richard Aldington
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Image of Vincent Bugliosi
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.
- Vincent Bugliosi
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Image of Joan Blades
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
- Joan Blades
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Image of Ernest Bevin
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
- Ernest Bevin
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Image of Roger Wolcott Sperry
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
- Roger Wolcott Sperry
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Image of Ordway Tead
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.
- Ordway Tead
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Image of Lawrence Joseph Henderson
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
- Lawrence Joseph Henderson
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Image of Carolyn Wells
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
- Carolyn Wells
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Image of Savielly Tartakower
It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
- Savielly Tartakower
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Image of Alan Cooper
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.
- Alan Cooper
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Image of Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.
- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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Image of John Joseph O'Connor
Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.
- John Joseph O'Connor
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Image of Terence Conran
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.
- Terence Conran
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Image of Jean-Louis Gassee
Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.
- Jean-Louis Gassee
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Image of Samuel Fuller
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense
- Samuel Fuller
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Image of David Deutsch
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
- David Deutsch
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Image of Christopher Martenson
I don't take left-right on any of my positions. I take common sense and so again, if alternative energy saves money, it creates jobs, it enhances national security, it's good for the environment - I'm trying to find who's against it, right.
- Christopher Martenson
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common sense is the enemy of romance
- Eric Jerome Dickey
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Image of James Gilmour
I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.
- James Gilmour
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Image of Thomas Streicher
The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.
- Thomas Streicher
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Image of Margaret Millar
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
- Margaret Millar
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Image of LouAnne Johnson
Knowledge counts but common sense matters.
- LouAnne Johnson
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Image of Alan Chadwick
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.
- Alan Chadwick
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Image of Elihu Palmer
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.
- Elihu Palmer
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