80 Quotes Tagged: common-sense

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Chisels and hammers may suffice to work a piece of wood, but for etching we require an etcher's needle. Thus common sense and speculative understanding are both useful, but each in its own way: the former in judgments which apply immediately to experience; the latter when we judge universally from mere concepts, as in metaphysics, where sound common sense, so called in spite of the inappropriateness of the word, has no right to judge at all.

It's amazing how intelligent it is just to spend some time sitting. A lot of people are way too active.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.

In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable; for they are void of reason and common sense.