- Nov 07, 2020
Common Sense Quotes
Short lines in praise of plain, practical reasoning.
Common sense is easy to expect and surprisingly rare in practice, whether the setting is a televised game show or an everyday disagreement. This page collects quotes that notice the gap between expecting sound judgment and actually seeing it. See also Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
- Dispense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
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