Common Sense Quotes - Page 32

• Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

  Mike Tyson

  Simple, Common, Difficult

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

  Ted Cruz

  Principles, Constitution, Speak

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• ...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Dark, Perception

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.506, 谷月社

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• Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
  Truth is apt to be neither.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Truth Is, Our Lives, Reasonable

  Christmas Humphreys (2003). “Teach Yourself Zen”, Teach Yourself

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• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  Albert Einstein

  War, People, Looks

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.66, Book Tree

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Starting Over, Together, Tragedy

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• There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

  George Eliot

  Water, Pumps, Folks

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot

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• Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Believe, Judging

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• In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Air, Law, Community

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.39

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• Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Stupid, Prejudice, Belief

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.284

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• Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Common, Omniscient

  Emily Dickinson, Marta L. Werner (1995). “Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing”, p.282, University of Michigan Press

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• Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Nature, Husband

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• To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

  John Dryden

  Education, Son, Parent

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• To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.

  Peter Menzel

  Missing, Important, Details

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• There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Safety

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.

  Doc Childre

  Truth, Stress, Technology

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• The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Lying, Men, Atheism

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• Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

  R. D. Laing

  Thinking, Smell, Self

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

  Ernest Sosa

  Defense, Common

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be telling the truth, it's really a he-said, she-said. But it turns out if you study the cases, something like 97 percent of the cases are actually true. And you think about it common sense - wise: Why would a young girl or a woman bring this attention upon herself? It's nonsensical. It sets up a binary equation where, in fact, if a girl makes that accusation, she's usually not lying about it.

  Jon Shenk

  Girl, Wise, Lying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.

  Catherine Wilson

  Snow, Water, Vagueness

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm a businessperson. I did really well. But I have common sense. And I said, well, I'll tell you. I haven't given lots of thought to NATO. But two things.Number one, the 28 countries of NATO, many of them aren't paying their fair share. Number two - and that bothers me, because we should be asking - we're defending them, and they should at least be paying us what they're supposed to be paying by treaty and contract.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Two, Numbers

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• By the way, that's a far less expensive solution than other very foolish solutions I've heard. The veterans love it, they love it. But it's a far better solution than anything anybody's heard and its common sense and it's there.The doctors need the business and the private hospitals and public hospitals need the business and they're sitting there, waiting. So we don't have a choice. We have to do that.

  Donald Trump

  Doctors, Choices, Waiting

  Source: time.com

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• I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

  Theodora Goss

  Retirement, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final revisions to my dissertation! Common sense would have said, finish the dissertation and get a good, solid academic position. But instead, I got to do something that no one else has done, because I don't think anyone has written a book quite like this one. And look at how beautiful it is!

  Theodora Goss

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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