Top 255 Common Sense Quotes

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

It’s hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

The Neanderthals in Texas have one thing that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi don’t have, and that’s called common sense.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, ‘we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.’

But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you’d call that communism. I think in the future, we’ll have to call that common sense.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

Just like navigating in the open sea, triangulating the information you collect from media with your doctor’s advice and some common sense will help map a sound path to safety.

Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Labour has a complex history with racism and internationalism. Political education about antisemitism and all forms of racism can help us reckon with that history, and ensure a socialist politics based on real equality becomes the common sense across the party.

It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it’s not.

I think it’s common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

While so many Americans are still struggling to find good jobs, and our manufacturing sector continues to need a boost, it is only common sense to ensure that taxpayer dollars put Americans to work rather than those outside our borders.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.

If Congress can’t get a budget passed when they’re supposed to, it’s just common sense they shouldn’t get paid.

No sir, I don’t have a crystal ball, but I do have common sense.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest – until common sense grabbed hold of me.

I believe in the Constitution – and I believe in common sense.

Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

I don’t think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett’s nuts! Just because he’s a freaking billionaire doesn’t mean he has common sense.

As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

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

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn’t ring true, it’s not true.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won’t work.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

The thing I learnt the most from the Kovalev fight, in all my other fights, when I hurt my opponent I was composed, but because this was such a big fight, I lost my cool, I started fighting with emotion instead of using my common sense and tactics to break him down.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

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.

We need to have a modicum of faith in people’s common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt.

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Common sense is often underrated.

South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.

I’m not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

Social media lacks insight, common sense, and emotion. Understand that while it’s easy to condemn celebrities on social media, people should also think of repercussions their insensitive remarks can make on the celebrities’ family.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

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

The Fair Elections Act in its final form will require every single voter to produce ID showing who they are before they vote. Away from the noise in political Ottawa, everyone understands that this is common sense.

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.

Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.

I support the 2nd Amendment – and our sportsmen and sportswomen throughout Minnesota – and I also believe that we need to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.

A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively – from the global stage to within their own communities and families.

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.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

In Raleigh, partisan battles, power struggles and lawsuits might grab the headlines, but we have to work together where we can. To look beyond ourselves to see what’s right for the state, regardless of who’s in power. That’s what the people of North Carolina want us to do, and what common sense demands us to do.

NEPA’s common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.