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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.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

Common sense often makes good law.

Quotes by William O. Douglas

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Quotes by William Osler

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.

Quotes by William Morris

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

Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Quotes by William Inge

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

Quotes by Wayne Brady

Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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

Quotes by Vince McMahon

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Quotes by Vincent Bugliosi

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

Quotes by Thomas Reid

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

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

Quotes by Terence

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

Quotes by Taylor Sheridan

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

Quotes by Steven Seagal

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

Quotes by Steve Wynn

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

Quotes by Stephen Jackson

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.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Quotes by Stephen Covey

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

Quotes by Stanley Marcus

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

Quotes by Sonny Perdue

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

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Quotes by Samuel Fuller

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Quotes by Samuel E. Morison

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

Quotes by Sam Rayburn

It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

Quotes by Sam Graves

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

Quotes by Sam Brownback

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

Quotes by Safra A. Catz

I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.

Quotes by Russell Pearce

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

Quotes by Robertson Davies

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Quotes by Robert Taft

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

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Quotes by Rene Descartes

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Quotes by Rene Descartes

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

Quotes by Queen Rania of Jordan

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

Quotes by Peter Welch

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

Quotes by Peter Hitchens

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.

Quotes by Peter Horton

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.

Quotes by Peter Berg

Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.

Quotes by Peter Bergen

I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do.

Quotes by Paolo Nutini

We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.

Quotes by Oscar Munoz

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Quotes by Norman O. Brown

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Quotes by Niger Innis

When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.

Quotes by Nicola Cornick

I hope that 'Remain' will carry the day, just on the grounds of common sense.

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Quotes by Myrna Loy

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Quotes by Morrissey

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

Quotes by Mike Crapo

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

Quotes by Michelle Pfeiffer

How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have come to be applied to those who represent minority interests and opinions?

Quotes by Mehdi Hasan

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Quotes by Matthew Green

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

Quotes by Matthew Arnold

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Quotes by Marquis de Lafayette

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

Quotes by Mark Walport

It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care.

Quotes by Mark Takano

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.

Quotes by Marilyn Ferguson

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Quotes by Margaret Deland

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Quotes by Margaret Deland

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

Quotes by Madeline Zima

Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

Quotes by Liz Williams

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Quotes by Lee Child

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

Quotes by Kyrsten Sinema

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

Quotes by Kim Campbell

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Quotes by Julian Casablancas

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Quotes by Josh Billings

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Quotes by Josh Billings

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Quotes by Josh Billings

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

Quotes by Joni Ernst

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

Quotes by John Warner

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

Quotes by John Mortimer

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Quotes by John Masefield

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

Quotes by Joe Barton

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Quotes by Joan Blades

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Quotes by Joan Crawford

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

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

Quotes by Jed S. Rakoff

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Quotes by James Reston

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Quotes by James Madison

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Quotes by James Garner

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.

Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Quotes by James D. Watson

You have to have the common sense.

Quotes by Ivana Trump

Common sense is very uncommon.

Quotes by Horace Greeley

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Quotes by Hank Johnson

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Quotes by Giambattista Vico

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Quotes by George Seaton

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