One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

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

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public...

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

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.

Even though it appears as if Mt. Lebanon acted within the letter of the law common sense did not prevail in how the contract was structured,

There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn’t that common.

There will come a time in every girl’s life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn’t crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes...

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

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

Good health is subjective and cumulative depending on individual interpretation. Do not allow someone else’s shortcomings to become yours.

On a good day, you don’t need that many fish, … You have to take a scientific and common sense approach.

the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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...

Common sense ain’t common.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

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...

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.