Common Sense Quotes - Page 36

• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Artist, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.202, Hoover Press

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• Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Suggestions, Faces, Logic

  "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

  Martin Heinrich

  Real, Gun, Law

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• America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

  Hank Johnson

  America, Immigration, Reform

  "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Example, Use, Problem

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• People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Tired, Views, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, People, Facts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

  Amanda Knox

  Innocent Person, Persons, Common

  "Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything's at stake'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  Wale

  Talking, Fake, Sound

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• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  Maira Kalman

  Kindness, Integrity, Men

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• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Religious, Fighting, Knights

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• Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

  Jack McDevitt

  Winning, Technology, Civilization

  Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.247, Penguin

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• Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

  Lyall Watson

  Sight, Air, Water

  Lyall Watson (2000). “Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and she makes pretty good decisions most of the time. She even has enough common sense that if she makes a bad one she makes adjustments and knows that's what life is. It's a day-by-day, step-by-step journey through life, as she says in the movie.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Dad, Journey, Decision

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Imagination, Littles

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Communication, Design, Forever

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• When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

  Mark Hart

  Needs, Irony, Praying

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.37, Franciscan Media

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• Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Common

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• ...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.

  C. D. Broad

  Silly, Mean, Writing

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• Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

  Clive James

  Moving, Dancing, Different

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  E. O. Wilson

  Intuition, Earth, Satellites

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• Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Kids, Order, Rooms

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• The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.

  George Orwell

  Philosophy, Two, Taught

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

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• Common sense is the best prophet.

  Euripides

  Common, Prophet

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• These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Trying, Machines

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1973). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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