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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

When your spouse is talking; turn off the television. When your child is talking turn off the world.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or...

Time is only an illusion, that’s common sense.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Most people have sense but not common sense.

The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive...

If someone deceives and victimizes another, understand that he would do, at least, the same to you.

Everyone deserves what they choose to tolerate.

Common sense is like deodorant. People that need it most don’t use it.

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody.

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

I guess it’s something that has kind of developed, … By the time the game starts, coach Reggie and I have studied the opponent so much I know the percentages of what a team will...

Even though common sense tells us that a piece of evidence doesn’t need to be examined, we’ll usually examine it anyway. If we find clothing with a rust stain on it, we need to look...

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and...