Quotes of: Common-things Keyword

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

There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

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

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Recollections on the French Revolution

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

Satires, Book I

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

In Memoriam

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

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Patty at Home

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. V

I picked up a hitchhiker. Later on I picked up some common sense and soda. The soda was all-natural, like the hooker from earlier.

Xazaqazax

Zane stole her breath and her common sense with just a smile. When he actually touched her, it was even worse.

Zane

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

Mohsin Hamid

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them.

D.E. Navarro

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Polly Toynbee

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Rene Descartes

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Stanley Hauerwas

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

Sean Penn