Common Sense Quotes - Page 19

• But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, Compassion

  "Carter: 'At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul'". edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2004.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Paper, Crime, Certain

  4 Copy quote

• The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Color, Habit

  Bertrand Russell (1959). “The problems of philosophy”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

  Tom Robbins

  Mind, Mediocrity, Littles

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

  Wendell Phillips

  Games, Play, Decision

  12 Copy quote

• You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

  Richard Petty

  Thinking, Past, Long

  30 Copy quote

• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

  Tom Daschle

  Giving Up, Wish, Would Be

  "Daschle: 'Grateful for every moment", www.cnn.com. November 19, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.

  Frank Luntz

  Two, Diversity, Accountability

  4 Copy quote

• If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.

  Joe Lieberman

  Kids, America, Labels

  "Bill seeks to end marketing adult music to children" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. April 26, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

  Charles Schumer

  New York, Red Flags, Important

  6 Copy quote

• From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.

  Kelvin Sampson

  Might, Able, Causes

  4 Copy quote

• Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Pain, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense.

  Mark Kostabi

  Nice, Believe, Simple

  7 Copy quote

• Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

  Stuart Chase

  Fall, Light, Iron Will

  Stuart Chase (1962). “The Proper Study of Mankind”, New York : Harper & Row

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

  24 Copy quote

• Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, May, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

  Howard Zinn

  People, Doe, Bombs

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Horse, Cheer, Medicine

  "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. August 30, 2008.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Home, Joy, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?

  Glenn Beck

  Mistake, People, Giving

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Children

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Common

  The Spectator, pp. 223-224, February 17, 1984.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking, Ideas, Support

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Preface, p. vii, 1937.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!

  Sun Myung Moon

  Crazy, Views, People

  "Zoff off, Moon loon, and Cheat schmeat". www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2001.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source