Common Sense Quotes - Page 37

• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Novelists, Belief, Importance

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• The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be given the responsibility to lead a crew of 12 all over the world, ready to stop a Russian submarine preparing to wipe out an American city with a nuclear missile: ‘Always remember that common sense and communication will solve 95 percent of the challenges you face in the Navy and life.

  Pete Olson

  Communication, Responsibility, Cities

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Pregnancy, Fighting, Population

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• In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Government, America, People

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• I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is a common-sense position.

  Jared Huffman

  Marijuana, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Important, Logic, Mathematics

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• There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

  Nick Offerman

  Common, Lost, Feels

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• Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Heart, Piano, Technique

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• Passion should always trump common sense.

  Robert De Niro

  Passion, Should, Trump

  "Robert De Niro Gives Blunt Commencement Speech at NYU: 'Yeah, You're F—ed'" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2015.

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• I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

  Iris Apfel

  Common, Believer

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, People, May

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• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  Caitlin Rose

  Jobs, Growing Up, Mean

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• Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

  Sarah Palin

  Independent, University Degrees, Lasts

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• Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

  Jon Krakauer

  Voice, Common, Voice Of God

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

  Rebecca Stead

  Thinking, Way, Habit

  Rebecca Stead (2009). “When You Reach Me”, p.51, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land’s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. “Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?” wondered Mack. “Well,” Alf answered, “we are.” “True,” Mack said.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Sea, Land

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• I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

  Anne Stuart

  Father, Acceptance, Knowing

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• I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Wish

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• ...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Doors, Waiting, Half

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.119, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Men, Use

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• An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

  Tasha Alexander

  Appreciation, Fashion, Doe

  FaceBook post by Tasha Alexander from Oct 04, 2013

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• I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fighting, Doe, Denial

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Answers, Philosopher

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Running, Book, Dollars

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.37, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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