Common Sense Quotes - Page 38

• Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flames, People, Life Is

  "Fictional character: Lord Henry Wotton". "Dorian Gray", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Psychosis, Hysteria

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

  Herman Wouk

  Mistake, Finding Yourself, Mind

  "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

  Wendell Berry

  Mind, Desire, Serious

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Nice, Ideas

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• Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Yoga, Meditation

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• It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Psychics, Understanding

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• Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.

  Lauren Mackler

  Believe, Keys, People

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

  Don Herold

  Wise, Men, Mind

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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Games, Behavior

  "Kmart And Wal-Mart To Check IDs For Mature Games". www.ign.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

  Vanna Bonta

  Wild Imagination, Discipline, Invention

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• One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Fall, Character

  "Top Democrats rip Clinton's defense strategy". www.cnn.com. September 14, 1998.

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• For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

  Vera Nazarian

  Daughter, Order, Imagination

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• People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

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• Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Brain, Important, Way

  Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

  Criss Jami

  Soldier, May, Heroic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Hands, Ideas, Issues

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• The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, Mind, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

  William John Locke

  Life, Games, Common

  William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Substitutes, Cases, True Knowledge

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Swings, People, Optimism

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

  Jimmy Carter

  Substitutes, Resorts, Mythology

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Ideas, Trying, Study

  "George Washington's Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership" by George Athan Billias, (p. 219), 1994.

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