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He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences. — Paulo Coelho

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason. — Mikhail Bakunin

You have the curiosity of a cat and common sense of a goldfish. — Susan Dennard

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs. — Frederick C. Beiser

Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness. — Connie Kerbs

I'll trade glib for common sense any day. — Steve Wynn

Most people have sense but not common sense. — Debasish Mridha

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. — Julie Gerberding

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back. — Linda Howard

He who must travel happily must travel light. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Common sense is no match for the voice of God. — Jon Krakauer

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. — Gary Hopkins

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression. — Idries Shah

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

People think common sense is common - but it's not. — Don Cherry

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Hey... don't lose to the world, to that common sense thing the world embraces. — Inoue Takehiko

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819 — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense. — Al McGuire

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go. — Dag Heward-Mills

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. — Fred Thompson

Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. — Susanne Katherina Langer

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. — Mike Crapo

Common sense used to be a great trait for one to have, and hence the name, common it was plentiful. Today's it's as rare as the Dodo bird. — M.A. Bookout

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham

Common sense ain't common. — Will Rogers

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way. — Rebecca Stead

The law of common sense. — Sophie Swetchine

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. — Juvenal

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human. — Gary Hopkins

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. — Jeannette Rankin

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure. — Eric Hoffer

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible. — Katharine Susannah Prichard

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. — Amit Abraham

For some reason his parents had a low opinion of his common sense. — Elizabeth Peters

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity. — Robert Breault

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense. — Kenny Guinn

Fear is a valuable commodity, it's common sense compressed into its purest form. — Mark Lawrence

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door. — John Wooden

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. — Anne Royall

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. — Horace Mann

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. — Evan Esar

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. — Robert Taft

It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is. — Aaron B. Powell

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. — Alan Cooper

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense. — Vj Nadar

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

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. — Kim Campbell

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way. — Dean Koontz

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'. — Savielly Tartakower

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. — Kedar Joshi

The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is. — Bernard Cornwell

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference. — Fred Reed

The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention. — Nakia R. Laushaul

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

Men and women have been taught so much about each other that they don't use their common sense et al! — Saurabh Sharma

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. — Mo Ibrahim

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. — Nikolai Gogol

Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us. — Jared Bush

Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be 'absolute' will eventually change due to 'new findings'. — Gary Hopkins

The world as it was, is, or will be, is beyond common sense, beyond natural understanding: it must be taught. — Masood Ashraf Raja

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. — R.D. Laing

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. — Jason Jennings

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. — Christopher Paolini

Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored — Tushar Raheja

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. — Mark Rothko

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. — Peter Horton

Common Core's become a one-size-fits-all program that simply doesn't make sense for our state," Jindal said at a news conference. — Anonymous

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens. — Robert W. Sarnoff

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. — Cheech Marin

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave. — Lauren Willig

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire

In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. — Juliet Castle

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense. — H.L. Mencken

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense. — George William Foote

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John Le Carre

The price of gaining such an accurate theory has been the erosion of our common sense. — Richard Feynman

King Solomon did not have a university degree, but had a doctorate in commonsense. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common! — Gordon Ramsay

Fashion excuses common sense? — K.F. Breene

Science ... is organized common sense. — Joseph Alexander Leighton

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston S. Churchill

She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody. — Marissa Clarke

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense. — David Thorne

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans. — Hank Johnson

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes

If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get. — Patricia Wentworth

I need the dark places to get outside of common sense — Jeanette Winterson

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield