Quotes on Common Sense

Science is simply common sense at its best.

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

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Time makes more converts than reason.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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

Believe nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ No matter where you read it,_x000D_ _x000D_ Or who has said it,_x000D_ _x000D_ Not even if I have said it,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless it agrees with your own reason_x000D_ _x000D_ And your own common sense.

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.

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

You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

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.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

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

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

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