Common Sense Quotes - Page 25

• Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

  Robert W. Sarnoff

  Hands, Spurs, Helping

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• Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Skills, Enough, Dealings

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Taken, Ordinary

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• Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

  PZ Myers

  Common, Damn, Superpower

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• Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Character, Long, Dubious

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• Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rockets, Making Money, Uncommon

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• Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, May, Difficult

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Prejudice, Rooted

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5987, e-artnow

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• In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Way, Common, Trouble

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• The common sense has kind of kept me completely out of trouble. This is a life where it could have went a different way. I feel like I'm definitely being watched and I'm so thankful for that to feel this protected and loved and embraced by God.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Different, Way, Kind

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• The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

  E. B. White

  Running, Lying, Silly

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• In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Powerful, Differences, Matter

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Genius, Kind

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Believe, Love Is

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.108, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

  Studs Terkel

  Couple, Book, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Ideas, Fit, Certain

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• Dawkins asserts that final causes and design don't really exist. Unguided evolution explains it all. Francis Crick thought the same thing but was afraid people would be misled by what they actually saw. So he issued this warning: "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." What? A warning to ignore the obvious? Absolutely. Because if we don't ignore the obvious, we might be tempted to follow common sense and attribute the "appearance" of design to actual design.

  Frank Turek

  People, Design, Mind

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• A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Play, Beginners, Native

  ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”

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• I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

  Bill Watterson

  Common, Plenty

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• There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

  George William Foote

  Two, Together, World

  George William Foote (1893). “Flowers of Freethought”

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• When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs.

  Hiroki Kuroda

  Running, Team, Score

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• Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Trying, Common, Lawyer

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• Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Tired, Fighting

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Essence, Secret

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Feb 16, 2010

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