When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this...

The fifth sense is “common sense”- either you have it or you don’t.

Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss; yet apparently it wasn’t obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of...

What do you get when you mix my blood with holy water?” Nick”Demon napalm”Kody

But God also helped those who helped themselves, and presumably expected the chosen to bring warm clothing, water purification tablets, basic medication, a weapon such as the bronze knives that were selling these days, possibly...

He who must travel happily must travel light.

Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that’s blended clean and translucent.

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left — sanity. But there was just enough in him of the...

This may seem like common sense to most folks, but there’s really been no literature or science where researchers tried to quantify and verify the effect.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

I’m not an expert, I’m a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.

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.