Common Sense Quotes - Page 23

• You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.

  Dorothy Draper

  Long, Imagination, Design

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• Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Self, Average, May

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• Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Too Much, Sometimes

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• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  Andrew Mellon

  Ideas, Reform, Program

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• What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Prosperity, Virtue

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.252

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• I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Confidence, Mankind, Common

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Men, Uprooting, Advertising

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• A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.

  Francois Arago

  Art, Peace, People

  François Arago, James Patrick MUIRHEAD (1839). “Historical Eloge of James Watt ... Translated ... with additional notes and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead”, p.149

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• Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Book, Learning, Self

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.

  Thomas Streicher

  Funeral, Police, Church

  " 'Crucial day' begins in Cincinnati", www.cnn.com. April 14, 2001.

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• What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Army, Navy, Conformity

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will
  have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humanity, Atheism, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 10, 2014

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• Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

  Derek Bok

  College, Thinking, Skills

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• I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

  Kinky Friedman

  Couple, Kids, Gay

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. October 10.

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• Retaining our capacity for reason
  is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

  H. E Davey

  Belief, Moments, Reason

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• It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Eggs, Greed, Curiosity

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• Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Depressing, Team

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Faces

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.18, Discovery House

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• Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rockets, Making Money, Uncommon

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• Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

  PZ Myers

  Common, Damn, Superpower

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• We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

  Henry Miller

  War, Shadow, Littles

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

  Voltaire

  Interesting, Leader, Mere

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