common sense

Common sense is as rare as genius.

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.

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

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

Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around . . . Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.