Quotes Tagged "common-sense"

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Wrong assumptions occur from limited knowledge. A person should have a complete view before shaping an opinion about someone or something.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

Common sense doesn't always ring true for many people; they want empirical evidence, the scientific stuff.

Long before there was any science there was commons sense first.

We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense - a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

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

So it's 2019. I'm gonna say the right thing to do is for the US to declare bankruptcy (Trump can do it… done it before…), and dismantle the criminal state of Israel as it exists today. Unfortunately, politicians are so full of shit and AIPAC money, and the economy is so addicted to war, and the US population is so fucking stupid... that we’ll probably have to go and try to fuck up another two or three countries before moving on to a decent, honest life.

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

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

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.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.