Common Sense Quotes - Page 17

• Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Time, Book, Character

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• You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.

  Dorothy Draper

  Long, Imagination, Design

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• Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Self, Average, May

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• Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Too Much, Sometimes

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• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  Andrew Mellon

  Ideas, Reform, Program

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• What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Prosperity, Virtue

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.252

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• I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Confidence, Mankind, Common

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Men, Uprooting, Advertising

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• A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.

  Francois Arago

  Art, Peace, People

  François Arago, James Patrick MUIRHEAD (1839). “Historical Eloge of James Watt ... Translated ... with additional notes and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead”, p.149

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• Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Book, Learning, Self

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.

  Thomas Streicher

  Funeral, Police, Church

  " 'Crucial day' begins in Cincinnati", www.cnn.com. April 14, 2001.

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• I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

  Lee Child

  Government, Target, Censorship

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• We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Mother, Children, Father

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• It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Facts, Realizing

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• The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Probability Theory, Appreciate

  "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

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• Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Culture

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• The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

  Lord Kelvin

  Believe, Science, Speak

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• I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to meet our energy needs. We need smart, comprehensive, common-sense approaches that balance the need to increase domestic energy supplies with the need to maximize energy efficiency.

  Edward Kennedy

  Smart, Science, Thinking

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• I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Running, Nice

  "All the Trouble in the World. The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague and Poverty". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, People, Second Amendment

  "CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric, www.fantasy.theshowbuzz.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.

  Eric Holder

  People, Looks, Use

  "CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric, www.fantasy.theshowbuzz.com. April 8, 2009.

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• Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Stupidity, Political

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