Common Sense Quotes - Page 39

• One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Fall, Character

  "Top Democrats rip Clinton's defense strategy". www.cnn.com. September 14, 1998.

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• For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

  Vera Nazarian

  Daughter, Order, Imagination

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• People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

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• Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Brain, Important, Way

  Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

  Criss Jami

  Soldier, May, Heroic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Hands, Ideas, Issues

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• The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, Mind, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

  William John Locke

  Life, Games, Common

  William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Substitutes, Cases, True Knowledge

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Swings, People, Optimism

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

  Jimmy Carter

  Substitutes, Resorts, Mythology

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Ideas, Trying, Study

  "George Washington's Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership" by George Athan Billias, (p. 219), 1994.

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• You have to have the common sense.

  Ivana Trump

  Common

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• Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Heaven, Intelligence

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• If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Trust, Travel, Adventure

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• I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

  Sabrina Lloyd

  Travel, Thinking, Ego

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• I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Oxford, Scholar

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• Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sound, Prejudice

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology”, Concept Publishing Company

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• If skills sold truth be told
  I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
  Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil)
  I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Skills, Rhyming

  "Song: 'Moment of Clarity'". 2003.

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• A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Pet, Spirit

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Prudence, Pedantry

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Liberty, Trends

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

  Owen Feltham

  Motivational, Perseverance, Business

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• I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
  Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Tree

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• Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Substitutes, Accounts

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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