Common Sense
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Author: Victor HugoTopics: Common, Common Sense, Educated, Education, Famous, Meaningful, result, Results, Sense
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Common Sense, Established, Famous, Feelings, Government, Knowledge, Reasons
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Common Sense, Famous, Philosophy, Words
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Common Sense, Famous, Feelings, Good Things, Ignore, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Problem, Recognize, Sacrificing
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Common Sense, Complicated, Economics, Famous, Remaining
95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Common Sense, Complicated, Economics, Famous, Non-fiction
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Common Sense, Famous, Hatred, Sports
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Common Sense, Decency, Everything, Famous, Favor, Freedom, Hate, Honesty
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Common Sense, Famous, Inspirational, Morning, Sounds, Tomorrow, Until, Waiting
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Author: Theodore RooseveltTopics: Common criticism, Common perception, Common Sense, Common sentiment, Desire for Goodness, Executed, Executive, Famous, Good, Good Book, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Restraint, Self, Self Belief, Self prepared, Self-Restraint
Understand that you don’t know it all. You don’t know anything yet. What you’ve been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don’t marry your first love.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: Common Sense, Famous, First love, Humorous perspective, Marry, Unknown
With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don’t have one for common sense?
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: Classes, Common Sense, Famous, School
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Common Sense, Dangerous, Dying, Famous, Managers, Poet
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Common Sense, Days, Dying, Famous, Poet, Poetry
The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Believe, Common Sense, Effects, God, Lose
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Common Sense, Faith, Famous, Inspiration, Society
Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Beautiful, Common Experience, Common Sense, Especially, Essay, Experience, Forward-looking, High, High level, Image, Imaginary, Surroundings, Survival
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
Author: George CarlinTopics: Common Sense, Drowning, Famous, Sport, Swimming
If common sense was common, more people would have it – but here we are.
Author: Theo VonTopics: Common Sense, People
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
Author: AesopTopics: Acceptance, Common Sense, Communication, Comparing, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lot, Loved, Meaningful, Positive, Upside Down
The cat always leaves a mark on his friend
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Common Sense, Duplicate, Easiest, Famous, Feelings, Friends, Fulfilling, Life, Meaningful
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Acquiring, Age, Ageless, Common Sense, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Prejudice