Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of abso...
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...
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...
The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive
And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.
Every life is precious, has value, a purpose, and is significant. Each life adds value to this world and to the lives of others. That value is immeasurable.
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Of what need is teamwork without a common goal?
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
I believe in cooperating for the common good.
