Quotes of: Common-sense Keyword

Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.

One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not ...

H.L. Mencken

If you don’t have common sense, ask someone who does

Sonya Withrow

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

Kedar Joshi

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Margaret Deland

In a world of diversity, and cultural differences... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.

Carla VanKoughnett

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

Mac Thornberry

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

Mike Crapo

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

Fred Thompson

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

John Mortimer

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Fred L. Turner

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Amit Kalantri

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

Amit Kalantri

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

Wazim Shaw

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

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