Good Sense Quotes

• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Business, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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  A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

  Hugh Sidey

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Sense Of Humor, Your Smile

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• Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Common Sense, Half, Fine

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.377

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• 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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• Never give in, never give in, never give in.

  Winston Churchill

  Graduation, Perseverance, Determination

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meaningful, Common Sense, Humanity

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• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, School, Common Sense

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, Philosophy, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

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• If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

  J. I. Packer

  Doubt, Mind, Devil

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• Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

  Danny Masterson

  Hard Times, Way, Levels

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• Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged."

  Tom Peters

  Stars, Caring, Talking

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• It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Errors, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  Horace

  Writing, Parent, Literature

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• I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

  Marco Arment

  Trying, Stuff, Waste

  "NY Startup Guy Marco Arment Has Had 3 Companies Sell In The Past 5 Weeks" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Hallucinations, Injustice

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Common Sense, Wife

  "Don Quixote in England: A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding, Esq".

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• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Clever, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• I would date a fan, I dont have a problem with that. I look for a good sense of humour in a girlfriend.

  Rupert Grint

  Girlfriend, Fans, Looks

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• One thing a girl has to have is a good sense of a humor. I'm a really laid back guy who can find humor in just about anything, so my girlfriend would need to be a little like that too. She doesn't have to be a big jokester, but to me finding humor in things and not taking too much too seriously is a way of enjoying life, so that is important to me.

  Logan Lerman

  Girl, Guy, Enjoy Life

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