Common Sense Quotes - Page 2

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

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.

{She] ain’t got the sense God gave a goat.

For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall least see the sense. If we stand in front of the nonsense, the ‘non’ shall always face us. It may only take a step taking to go behind the 'non' to see the sense the ‘non’ is obstructing. There are so many people who quit so quickly just because they look at the non in front of the sense and they conclude that sense can never come after ‘non’.

What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth...if silence is golden it is also in this case, very expedient.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Let me tell you something you probably already know. It's that second cork that should remain in the neck of the bottle. You can liberate 1, but two bottles of wine for 2 people is 1 bottle too many. There was a reason the French bottled wine the way they did. 2 and a half glasses was plenty of wine for 2 people to consume with dinner. But that's not how it went with us.

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.

Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.

What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!

By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who follow the popular majority, and those who possess good sense. In other words, you can either let the crowd steer you right over a cliff, or you can stop to peer beyond the brink and see how a fall will likely end in tragedy.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception.I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man - one to a millennium - if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.

Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

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There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

As long as you try to think intelligently, you have missed the point.

Threatened men live long.

All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.