C Quotes
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“common sense is the enemy of romance”
Source: Waking with Enemies
“Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P”
“Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.”
Source: Prison Notebooks
“Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.”
Source: The Proceedings of the Government of the United States in Maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, Against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston
“Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.”
“Common sense is the genius of humanity.”
“Common sense is the genius of mankind.”
“Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.”
“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”
“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
“Common sense is the result of the truest education. Education is like wine. It takes time. It's a process. The young sometimes have to go through it. And sometimes, they die trying.
Sincerely,
The Obi Library Collective of Leopard Knox, Department of Responsibility”
Source: Akata Woman
“Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.”
“Common sense is very uncommon.”
“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
“Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.”
“Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.”
Source: A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present
“Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.”
Source: Shark Dialogues
“Common sense needs constant reappraisal.”
“Common sense needs to be more common.”
“Common sense often makes a good law.”
“Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.”
“Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.”
“Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.”
Source: The Read-aloud Handbook
“Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.”
“Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.”
“Common sense tells us that as long as people exist, disease will always coexist with us. And the same holds true for our social lives — as long as there are people, there will always be those diseased people (what I mean is those ethically corrupt boneheads) living among us.
During times of stability, our lives are ordinary and routine, and the peace and quiet of the monotonous everyday gradually conceals the great kindness and the horrific evil that humans are capable of.”
Source: Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City
“Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.”
“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
“Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.”
Source: The Proper Study of Mankind
“Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.”
“Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.”
“Common sense told me that I didn’t want to lie to my family constantly, steal all the time, and drug myself
into a coma. Common sense also told me that if I didn’t want to keep making these same stupid mistakes, I would need to change and stop performing the same stupid actions. But I didn’t have the power or discipline to change. So, I kept doing the same things over and over, each time feeling more hopeless than before.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.”
“Common sense usually means 'Just take my word for it.”
“Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.”
Source: Shadow of the Moon
“Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.”
Source: Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)
“Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.”
“Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.”
Source: The Witches Are Coming
“Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.”
“Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"”
“Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.”
“Common sense, however it tries,
cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.”
“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.”
Source: The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre
“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing
“Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United States became this special place and then try to replicate it around the world, because that's the solution to the human condition. The solution to poverty, the solution to misery, the solution to backwards living is the United States of America. Why not learn how that happened, learn why and how we happened. What is it that made it special?”
“Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.”
“Common sign rulerships bestow difficult and arduous lives and success gained against great odds, attended with heavy responsibilities. Men born under common signs usually start out early in life on courses of independent action.”
Source: Psychoanalyzing the Twelve Zodiacal Types
“Common Speech Weakners:
- Voicing an opinion by saying, "I might be wrong about this, but...." By starting your sentence this way, you are discrediting your own idea before you even say it.
- Failing to take ownership of your idea by saying "I feel" instead of "I know".
- Making an assertion into a question by raising your voice at the end of your sentence.
- Shrugging or loking down when speaking. This kind of body language makes us seem less confident and capable.
- Communicating a lack of commitment to our statements by allowing our voice to rail off at the end of our sentence.”
Source: The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate