Common Sense Quotes

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
Andrew Weil

Health, Human, Sometimes

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence

Sense, Common, Clever

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.
Rob Sheffield

Heart, Perfect, Play

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
Simon Cowell

Love, Family, Business

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
Lee Child

Government, Sense, Common

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess

Country, Try, Sense

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
Ai Weiwei

Government, Society, Saying

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.
Eric Holder

Respect, Understand, Sense

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
Pauline Hanson

Experience, Mother, Children

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
George Byron

Power, Heart, Wife

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
Nicole Polizzi

Smart, School, Book

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold

Age, Sense, Next

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies

Love, Passion, Sense

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Strong, Sense, Times

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.
Jane Siberry

Game, Blame, Sense

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.
Johnny Knoxville

Hurt, Parents, Wish

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.
Ray Comfort

Power, Nothing, Sense

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.
Fred Upton

Sense, Common, Media

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
Fred Upton

Time, Political, Sense

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
Gail Porter

Yourself, Someone, Why

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

Time, Sense, Common

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
William Kingdon Clifford

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.
Eric Holder

Forward, Working, Sense

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Carol Moseley Braun

History, Government, Experience

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
Melissa Bean

Past, Sense, American

Common sense often makes good law.
William O. Douglas

Good, Law, Sense

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Kim Campbell

Future, Cannot, Sense

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
Esther Dyson

Technology, Sense, Leave

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
Daryl Hannah

Political, Sense, Matter

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon

Good, Real, Sense

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