Common Sense Quotes - Page 9

• Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Discipline, Fundamentals

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• If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Men, Typewriters

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• Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

  Henry Mintzberg

  Risk, Management, Influential

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• An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Self

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Perspective

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• Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Simplicity, Sublime, Saving

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Order, Light, House

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.296, Oxford University Press

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• It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Desire, Doe

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Winning, Men, Age

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• Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

  John le Carre

  Humility, Men, Giving

  John le Carre (2002). “Call for the Dead”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Law, Practice, Littles

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• The law of common sense.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Law, Common, Resignation

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• What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

  E. W. Howe

  Results, Worthy, Opposition

  Sinner Sermons (p. 7)

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• Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

  Albert Einstein

  Age, Prejudice, Layers

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• Common sense is strengthened by joy.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Joy, Common

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• First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

  Paul Samuelson

  Cancer, Effort, Investing

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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• After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

  Jim Cramer

  Crazy, Thinking, Trying

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• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Writing, Important

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• common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Instruments, Tricky, Indispensable

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• Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Common, Prompts

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• Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Views, Ideas, Excellence

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

  Joseph Priestley

  Mean, Common

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• Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Men, Average, Individual

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