Common Sense Quotes - Page 38

• For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Cancer, Pride

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

  Angela Carter

  Stars, Eye, Doors

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.91, Random House

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• Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cat, Eye, Kissing

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• No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

  Anne Bronte

  Rain, Taken, Mind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.698, Penguin

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• Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

  Isabel Allende

  Motivation, Nice, Inspiration

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• Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

  Piers Anthony

  Warrior, Weapons, Barbarians

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Golem in the Gears”, p.288, Del Rey

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• We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Past, Sea, Differences

  Robert G. Ingersoll (1997). “Ingersoll's Greatest Lectures”, p.451, Health Research Books

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• The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Loss, Love Is, Perfect

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.57, Seal Press

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• Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flames, People, Life Is

  "Fictional character: Lord Henry Wotton". "Dorian Gray", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Psychosis, Hysteria

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

  Herman Wouk

  Mistake, Finding Yourself, Mind

  "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

  Wendell Berry

  Mind, Desire, Serious

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Practice, Common

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• Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Problem, Conservation, Common Good

  Gifford Pinchot (2017). “Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings”, p.43, Penn State Press

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• If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Littles

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• In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Heart, Intuition

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• Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Nice, Ideas

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• Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Yoga, Meditation

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• It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Psychics, Understanding

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• Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.

  Lauren Mackler

  Believe, Keys, People

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

  Don Herold

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Games, Behavior

  "Kmart And Wal-Mart To Check IDs For Mature Games". www.ign.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

  Vanna Bonta

  Wild Imagination, Discipline, Invention

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