Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

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

I picked up a hitchhiker. Later on I picked up some common sense and soda. The soda was all-natural, like the hooker from earlier.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn’t be a problem.

When interpreted as infallible, the truth claims of powerful institutions — whether religious or secular — tend to emphasise the fallibility of individuals and their subjective ethical intuitions; thus, undermining self-reliance, including people’s ability to make use of information they intuitively know is basically correct, based on their own experiences or simply common sense.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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

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.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Need doesn’t care about being sensible.

Yelling doesn’t get your point across, it only makes it louder.

You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people… have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

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Al contrario de lo que piensa el sentido común, las cosas de la voluntad nunca son simples, lo que es simple es la indecisión, la incertidumbre, la irresolución…

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

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

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.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.

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

If you keep running into the same wall over and over again, turn.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to

If one divided all of human science into two parts – the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned – the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the...

In science common sense is nonsense and nonsense is sense.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak back,but then nothing at allwill ever change.

if you bully then you should expect to be bullied

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. Common-sense is naively realistic wherever it does not think that there is some positive reason why it should cease to be so. And this is so in the vast majority of...

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

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.

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.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

When someone shows youwho they are,believe them the first time.

Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you’re going downhill.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Never assume the obvious is true.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn’t always become common.

Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing–no matter the personal cost.

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years...

The social custom of calling on people when they are unwell has always mystified me. By definition, you’re not feeling or looking your best. Why on earth do people assume you might want visitors?

This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.

If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.

Remember Boogie Rule #6 (Don’t watch local children boogie killer surf and say hey they can. do it , I can do it,) You like die?

Physics, my friend, is a narrow path drawn across a gulf that the human imagination cannot grasp. It is a set of answers to certain questions that we put to the world, and the world supplies the answers on the condition that we will not then ask it other questions, questions shouted out by common...