common-sense

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Ethics are the things that say, 'Don__ stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It__ okay because we__e shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we__e chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I__ having a really hard time getting back up.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam__ front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.

Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain!

She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. __'m not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.

Imagine you are in a classroom and they hand you a test with many interesting multiple choice questions, until you get to __an you just explain what exactly you believe how the Universe started?_ & here are the options. a) The Big Bang b) It__ always been therec) God! or Godsd) A bowl of cherries e) I don__ know_. If you choose (a) then what or who & why caused it? & the test continues_..If you choose (b) that would be my choice. If you choose (c) then who or what created God or Gods? And where do they come from? And if you think they have always been there, the same thing could be said about the universe. If you choose (d) It doesn__ make sense, it is odd, an anomaly, not supposed to be etc :) if you choose (e) then you are being honest. There__ nothing wrong with not knowing. You can make __ssumptions_ or __retending_ that you know or a book (bible) __nows_ or __ells_ you but I just don__ buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And the test (life) continues with more wonderful questions and experiences :)

Everyone deserves what they choose to tolerate.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as the chief good. Another class live about this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet and artist and the sensual school in philosophy. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified and these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third spiritual perception.I see in society the neophytes of all these classes, the class especially of young men who in their best knowledge of the sign have a misgiving that there is yet an unattained substance and they grope and sigh and aspire long in dissatisfaction, the sand-blind adorers of the symbol meantime chirping and scoffing and trampling them down. I see moreover that the perfect man - one to a millennium - if so many, traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty; and lastly wears it lightly as a robe which he can easily throw off, for he sees the reality and divine splendor of the inmost nature bursting through each chink and cranny.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?