Common Sense Quotes - Page 8

• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Atmosphere, Academic

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Son, Self, Phrases

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.38, Penguin

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• Common sense is not always common practice.

  Stephen Covey

  Practice, Common

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.405, Mango Media Inc.

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• Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Nature, Differences, Exaltation

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• Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Being Happy

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• An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Self

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• Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Enemy, Common

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• Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Simplicity, Sublime, Saving

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

  John Calvin

  Found, Grain, Jew

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.175, Jazzybee Verlag

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• National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a positive difference to the world we live in. Its all about combining age old truths and skills with new and innovative thinking and technologies….people, plants and landscapes growing together, designing and nurturing a healthy community along the way.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Technology, Thinking, Skills

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• The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think about the common sense assumptions that drive their lives, then you've got an ideological foundation for totalitarianism that not only destroys the capacity to think critically, it destroys the capacity to have convictions at all.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Culture

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• I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Thinking, People, Mammals

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• Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Needs, Common

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• Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

  Hannah

  Men, Thinking, Community

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Basic Human Rights

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Kids, Differences

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• There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  People, Havens, Left

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• If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Men, Typewriters

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• Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Discipline, Fundamentals

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• The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

  Nancy Astor

  Common Humanity, World, Practicals

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• Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

  Henry Mintzberg

  Risk, Management, Influential

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• Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Educational, Commodity, Institutions

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