Common Sense Quotes - Page 24

• If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

  Michelle Obama

  Who I Am, People, Mind

  "10 Things We Learned From Michelle Obama & Meryl Streep in More Magazine". Interview with Sarah Cristobal, www.yahoo.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

  Kinky Friedman

  Couple, Kids, Gay

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. October 10.

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• Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Depressing, Team

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.

  Jerry Vines

  Doors, Church, Littles

  Source: sbctoday.com

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• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Peace, War, Firsts

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• We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

  Henry Miller

  War, Shadow, Littles

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

  Voltaire

  Interesting, Leader, Mere

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• A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

  Joe Hill

  Song, Heart, Numbers

  Letter to the editor of Solidarity, November 29, 2014.

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• There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

  Sting

  Political, Politics, Sides

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• It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

  John Hughes

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

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• Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

  Ben Nelson

  Lines, Common, Should

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• There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

  John Bright

  Two, Russia, Europe

  1878 Speech, Birmingham, 13 Jan.

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Teaching, School, People

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• Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, People, Frightened

  "The Way We Live Now: 11-02-03: Questions For Noam Chomsky; The Professorial Provocateur". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 2003.

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• If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

  Maya Angelou

  Be Kind, Fool, Brilliant

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• Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

  Derek Bok

  College, Thinking, Skills

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• Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love Is, Laughing, Young Love

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• What is common sense isn't common practice.

  Stephen Covey

  Practice, Common

  "Seven Paragraphs in Memory of a Highly Effective Person" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2013.

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• I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

  Ken Osmond

  Children, Parent, Forever

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• We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

  Bernie Sanders

  College, Ideas, Tuition

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• In an industry that has the capacity underutilization that we have, why wouldn't we? It's just common sense. Apparently they're successful (in Canada). Our standard approach is not to cookie cut things. Every market is different, every theater is different. The devil's in the details.

  Gerry Lopez

  Cutting, Successful, Devil

  Source: deadline.com

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• A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Heart, Order

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.202, North Point Press

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Self, Novelty

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