All Quotes By Tag: Common-sense
“Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.”
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“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.Q. Can you prove that this mathematics is valid?A. Only to another mathematician.Q. Your claim then is that your truth is of so esoteric a nature that it is beyond the understanding of a plain man. It seems to me that truth should be clearer than that, less mysterious, more open to the mind.A. It presents no difficulties to some minds. The physics of energy transfer, which we know as thermodynamics, has been clear and true through all the history of man since the mythical ages, yet there may be people present who would find it impossible to design a power engine. People of high intelligence, too.”
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“It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”
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“Sometimes, instead of your heart, use your brain.”
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”
“What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?”
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“Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; ‘Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.’ Now THAT I’ll give the green light to. The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones.”
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“There will come a time in every girl’s life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn’t crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).”
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“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
“Why can’t we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.”
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“Knowledge counts but common sense matters.”
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“Threatened men live long.”
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“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!”
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“Let me suffer in peace.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge”