Common Sense Quotes - Page 3

• My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Success, Intellectual, Intelligence

  "Helen Gurley Brown's feminist legacy", www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Logic, Classroom

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  F. L. Lucas

  Art, War, Tired

  F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meaningful, Humanity, Genius

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• Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Nature, Trekking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  E. W. Howe

  Literature, Enthusiasm, Way

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• Common sense is as rare as genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Serious, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.395, Penguin

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Common, Prevision

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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• Common sense often makes a good law.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Common

  "Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 25, 1957.

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  Douglas Adams

  Character, Numbers, Lasts

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Mistake, Dorian Grey

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

  John Masefield

  Poetry, Mixtures, Uncommon

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  Norman O. Brown

  Freedom, Liberty, Violence

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  Alan Watts

  Taught Us, Culture, Aliens

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• Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Time, Motivation

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.228, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Pauline Hanson

  Mother, Running, Children

  "The Brexit factor: Why one in four voters abandoned the major parties". "Background Briefing" with David Lewis, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2016.

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• No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

  John Mortimer

  Law, Nails, Cleaning

  A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

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• Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Writing, Authority

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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Bullying, Two, Pedants

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Vices, Wickedness

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

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• Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

  Julian Casablancas

  Vanity, Common

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• Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  Margaret Deland

  Dangerous, Conscience, Common

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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