Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

There are many professions that require individuals, on an ongoing basis, to pass drug tests, physicals and psychological evaluations in order to keep their jobs. Maybe it’s time to start holding the people that are...

On Lincoln: “A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Clearly we’re disappointed. This violates common sense. What it really says is there are loopholes in the law.

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna.”[“Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank.”]

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

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.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything...

I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

If I already intuitively “get” what you’re trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn’t…. It’s your job, as...

Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l’art parce qu’il ne prend pas l’art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie.

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

The more laws are enacted and taxes assessed, the greater the number of lawbreakers and tax evaders

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that—feelings—and, as such, have no capacity to reveal...

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

It’s pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is.

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy....

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist – I helped her lace them up – but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said...

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very...

Shut out anyone who upsets your peace of mind, right now.

Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain!

Reading is the Magic key,To take you where you want to be.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Some people don’t have a lick of common sense. I don’t have a lick of a lollipop. But I do have love on the tip of my tongue, so that’s good.

Plus, I have common sense.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Life is too short to forget who you love, lose your sanity or mince words…

Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy...

Common sense is a tool that isn’t in everyone’s shed.

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

Remember, crowd doesn’t care about common sense.

Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya kudumu. Tamaa ya ngono kimsingi huanza pindi unapokutana na mtu. Tamaa hiyo huweza...

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive...

Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting...

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make...

Miracles define common sense.

If you don’t have common sense, ask someone who does

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.