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Common Sense Quotes (page 7)

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much. Terry Prachett
Anne Bronte quote: "I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise."
I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. Anne Bronte
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. Howard Schultz
Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy. Tom Sharpe
A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact. George Orwell
Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now! Ray Bradbury
Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people? Dale Carnegie
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even..."
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."Or else a fool. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Isabel Allende quote: "Nice people with common sense do not make interesting..."
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Isabel Allende
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands..."
Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Robert M. Pirsig
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go..."
When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice. Philip Stanhope
The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible to prove the existence of God as to disprove it. I do not believe in God. I see no need of such an idea. It is incredible to me that there should be an after-life. I find the notion of future punishment outrageous and of future reward extravagant. I am convinced that when I die, I shall cease entirely to live; I shall return to the earth I came from. Yet I can imagine that at some... W. Somerset Maugham
Charles Dickens quote: "Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable."
Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable. Charles Dickens
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural. Robert Green Ingersoll

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