Common sense and logic are fast becoming rare. This article quotes some famous people to give you such common sense quotations and sayings which have the potential of reviving these dying traits.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
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