Common Sense Quotes - Page 29

• There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Law, Political

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Energy, Conservation, Eco

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Imagination, Common

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

  Dorothy Day

  Trying, Heroic, Kind

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• A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

  Richard Aldington

  Earth, Paradise, Littles

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

  Tina Turner

  Giving, Worry, World

  "Tina Turner's tips for staying sexy at 70 as she embarks on another world tour". www.mirror.co.uk. February 02, 2009.

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• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Persistence, Discipline, Levels

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

  Anna Sui

  Dream, Focus, Ifs

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• It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Memories

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

  Mark Rothko

  Imagination, World, Fancy

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honest, Sometimes, Intention

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.64

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• I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Smart, Book, School

  "Are Wedding Bells in Snooki's Future?" by Lauren Sher, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity.

  Tomi Ungerer

  Reality, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Burgin Streetman, www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com. July 1, 2013.

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• An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

  Susan Wiggs

  Heart, Past, Events

  Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer by the Sea”, p.176, Harlequin

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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• I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Guy, Common, Kind

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• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  Talib Kweli

  Records, Rhyme, Best Things

  Song: Ghetto Show, Album: Beautiful Struggle, 2004

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Kings, Order

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

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• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Fall, Character

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• The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Reading, Writing, Not Good Enough

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• If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don't get too emotional when things go against you.

  Walter Schloss

  Intelligent, Emotional, Long

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• There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

  Dalai Lama

  Way, Humans, Findings

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• Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.

  Joan Rivers

  Fur, Vegetarian, Common

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• Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Children, Educational, Home

  "How parents and teens can communicate without strife". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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