Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

Nas

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

Victor Hugo

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

George Seaton

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Dean Inge

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

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

George Jean Nathan

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts...

Sarah Palin

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

LM Fields

Common sense often makes good law.

William O. Douglas

Common sense is very uncommon.

Horace Greeley

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies c...

Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common se...

Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons