Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.

Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Bruce Braley

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Life

I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

Life

There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are

Love

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.

Vj Nadar

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

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 ...

The Sense of an Ending

First do no harm. -Hippocrates Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Call for the Dead

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Discourse on Method

Sorry, he said penitently. It’s a book. I have no common sense around them.

The Bell at Sealey Head

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Infinity

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna." ["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Satires, Book I

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.

Looking Forward

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks