Common Sense Quotes

I told him there's about as much chance finding rabbits in hats as brains in heads of certain people I could name, but look he does and so I got these gifts for him.

Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine

To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.

Men haven't got much sense, have they, when you get down to rock bottom?

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

men

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

And for the love of God, do you at least remember what you were doing the day they were passing out common sense? Maybe you were running late cos you couldn't find the right thong for those low-rider jeans you love. Maybe you were bopping along to whatever boy band makes your heart race and you just drove on by. I don't know, I'm just guessing. But one thing's sure. You wound up at the dumb-dumb store and put about as much of that in the car as you could fit, didn't you?

The heresy of heresies was common sense.
And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?
Or that the force of gravity works?
Or that the past is unchangeable?
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?

George Orwell

1984

Winston Smith

To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.

You have your mother’s common sense but your father’s devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win.

Says to Thomas Shelby.

The law doesn't seem to make much common sense sometimes.

Don't try to make sense out of it, not now, cos it doesn't make sense. I just know if you start a job then finish it.

Revolver (2005)

affairs

There are two ways to be understood: One is through true love, the other through pure reason.

Die Vermessung der Welt

Carl Friedrich Gauß

understanding

love

And the perverted fear of violence,
Chokes the smile on every face,
And common sense is ringing out the bell,
This ain't no technological breakdown -
Oh no, this is the road to hell.

There is no monopoly of common sense
On either side of the political fence.
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology.

— I don't know, Wade. I think we're asking for trouble hanging around like this. I mean, what about common sense? I guess that's something those "brainiacs" wouldn't understand.
— They're scientists. Common sense just gets in their way.

Lady, you got more courage than you got common sense.