Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.

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.

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

For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common normal opinions of mankind. His function is to tell men what they ought...

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

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.

Once acquired, knowledge feels like common sense.

Citizens of a modern society need […] more than that ordinary “common sense” which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.

Don’t go out there,” I yelled out, suddenly afraid for the man outside to figure out the way in. For whatever reason, so far he hadn’t. To my way of thinking, if someone isn’t in...

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and...

Things do not change; we change.

All’s well that ends well.”Assuming there’s an end somewhere,’ Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. ‘There has to be an end somewhere. It’s just that...

Stay in the boat, I told myself, watching them walk up to the pavilion. I’ll just stay in the boat. I won’t go anywhere near that creature.But in spite of that wise warning, I climbed...

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

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number...

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one’s individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even...

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

The idea they have any advantage defies common sense.

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.

Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.

He who jumps for the sake of jumping will probably keep jumping until he jumps back into his own jumping ground.

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

I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.

No, sir, I’m all out of change.

What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.

If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived...

Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can’t apply it to social situations and day to day events, you’re on the same...

If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn’t live much of a life.

Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

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

I hope common sense will prevail.

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

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

I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poorenough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have somecommon sense!

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in...

common sense is not a specific destination but rather an ongoing process. It is, however, an essential ingredient of the recipe for success.

You can always start over the next day.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can...

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.

Paranoia is habitual. If you get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner, then you’ll EXPECT to get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner.

We are always dreaming up ways to be more efficient. A lot of it is common sense.

Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.

Sólo un sentido común con imaginación de poeta podría haber sido el inventor de la rueda.

But where, says some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.