Quotes about commonsense

Common sense often makes good law.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense it is not God.

Commonsense will never come from following your heart wisdom is only stored in the mind.

Gathering eggs is commonsense waiting for them to hatch is wisdom.

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

Maybe, the question isn't who will look good by your side, who will make these days less dull, who will bring you the greatest financial benefit, who will be the one to bring you pleasure, who do you have the most in common with?.... Maybe, the question one should ask is who do you want at your side when you are dying?

It really is quite simple. All women really want is to be needed, valued and loved above anyone else and they will make you a keeper. It's your actions she is paying attention to, not your words.

Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife,

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom.

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

Not every person wants the prettiest, smartest, talented or spiritually uplifting person to build a life with. Sometimes we just want that special someone that makes sense, puts up with us, has patience, comes without drama, gives us focus and is willing to run with our half-baked ideas.

You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.

The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and you

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

Empowering Women 101: Know the difference between real love and a person that is with you because it is easy and convenient. A real woman doesn't live in the fantasy that he just all of a sudden knew you were the one and no one else believes that either. Be willing to settle and accept the situation or work on it. However, don't sit in denial and pretend going through hell in a relationship was required before he saw your worth. He should have known from the beginning.

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from our law courts as it is from our heads, we delight in trampling it underfoot, and that is what makes our judicial sentences such masterpieces, since (although commonsense never presides in them) those sentences are carried out with as much firmness as if people knew what they actually meant.

When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

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

The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

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

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

Common sense is not so common.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

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.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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

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

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

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

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

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.

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