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...

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!

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Once again, environmentalist scare-mongering seeks to undermine common-sense reforms that shore up our energy infrastructure.

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...

Funny Bone” must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all…

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

It is love that is sacred,” she said.” Listen, child, to an old woman who has seen three generations, and who has had a long experience of men and women. Marriage and love have nothing...

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

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

…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

Les moustiques porteurs du paludisme n’attendront pas poliment jusqu’à ce que les gens se couchent sous des moustiquaires

Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.

It was time for tea as it so often was.

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...

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...