Quotes About Commonsense

The third and final type of problem with commonsense reasoning is that we learn less from history than we think we do, and that this misperception in turn skews our perception of the future.

Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers are locked up they can't commit more crimes and law-abiding citizens are safer. Right? Actually, wrong.

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

keep in mind that California schools still teach French for some ridiculous reason, so clearly someone hasn't gotten the commonsense memo. Golf

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

What's most aggravating is feeling like I'm a radical for saying something so commonsense.

The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

I think a good many things that common folk call miracles are merely a matter of an observant person's good plain sense

Once your frame is accepted into the discourse, everything you say is just common sense. Why? Because that's what common sense is: reasoning within a commonplace, accepted frame.

Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Whatever should I do if Mama were to arrive while you are gone?' 'Hide in the hay-loft!' he recommended. 'But if she has a particle of commonsense she won't make the smallest push to recover you!

I'm honored to be a member of the Senate's Veterans' Affairs Committee, where we can hear about the problems facing our veterans firsthand, and work together on commonsense solutions.

Gesunder Menschenverstand kann fast jeden Grad von Bildung ersetzen, aber kein Grad von Bildung den gesunden Menschenverstand.

E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation needs to be complemented with an overview, which I think is scientific commonsense.

95% of economics is common sense