Common Sense Quotes - Page 14

• People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Demand, Serious

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• The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

  Robert Silverberg

  House, Citizens, Vindictive

  Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

  Heidi Klum

  Believe, Healthy, Needs

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• I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

  William Graham Sumner

  Son, Men, Practice

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

  Mark Helprin

  Talking, Long, Justice

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

  Margery Allingham

  Mean, Elimination, Process

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

  Rand Paul

  Missing, Common, Bipartisanship

  Rand Paul's Speech, www.politico.com. February 2, 2013.

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• I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

  Rene Magritte

  Add, World, Want

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• The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are. . . . Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware . . . still clinging to things that no longer exist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Views, Names, People

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• Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Faith, Believe, Effort

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• Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sacrifice, Simple, Political

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• The people people have for friends
  Your common sense appall
  But the people people marry
  Are the queerest folk of all.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Marriage, People, Cynical

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• Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.

  Mike Hebert

  Volleyball, Team, Athlete

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• Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Heart, Discipline

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• A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Success, Winning, Secret

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• The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ideas, Rebel, Scripture

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• The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

  Benjamin Spock

  Experts, Common, Neighbor

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Success, Business

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• Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, People, Creative

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• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Light, Next Week

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  Fred Upton

  Views, Media, Diversity

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• No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Struggle, Foundation, Protection

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• The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

  Thomas Sowell

  Unlikely, Made, Theory

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• We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

  Deval Patrick

  Giving Up, Games, People

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