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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.


Margaret Deland

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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
MARGARET DELAND She is my conscience. She has lots of common sense.
HECTOR VENEGAS Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
LYN KAROL One thing I know to be true: Common sense is no longer common!
TRAVIS J HEDRICK ... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.
GEORGE FRIEDMAN The best thing about common sense, is that people eventually get around to it.
CHRIS W. MORRIS (CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORRIS) What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
TERENCE It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not...
MADELINE ZIMA Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.
SUZY KASSEM He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Victory is consistent common sense. And the only thing consistent is change.
LILY CHATTERJEE The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.
KATHRYN SMITH There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.
KRISTIN ACCIPITER There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
STUART CHASE I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
WAYNE BRADY What makes sense these days? Sense is common; Common sense is rare
GWEN MERKELBACH Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common se...
ROBIN S. SHARMA Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.
TOBA BETA This is someone?s livelihood, and it?s unfortunate that someone just drove up to the victim?s house ...
DAVID COOPER I want a president who will build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. A p...
TERRY MCAULIFFE A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ...
J.J. BOWLERS Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
MARGARET DELAND Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
MARGARET DELAND One must desire something to be alive.
MARGARET DELAND Convictions do not imply reasons
MARGARET DELAND A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
MARGARET DELAND A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
MARGARET DELAND On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.
KALIFER DEIL They were just trying to foul, so the common sense thing to do is throw it up at the basket. As long...
TAYSHAUN PRINCE It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margar...
MARGARET SANGER It's a boring kind of thing, really. I think common sense pretty much tells you where it is.
RON GARDENHIRE Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
ZIG ZIGLAR Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Alas, common sense is not so common.
MUHAMMED HAIDER It was and remains the right thing to do. It's a common sense approach to protecting families and ch...
JASON YOUNG I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense...
WILLIAM GOLDING Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or do...
RICHARD DIAZ THE SIXTH SENSE IS THE COMMON-SENSE !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
GIFFORD PINCHOT Luck is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change.
BEN HARTE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
SAMUEL BUTLER Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. What is common sense to us might be exclusive information to others. Never assume that what you know...
TARY C. Intelligence is natural; common sense is a virtue.
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE People think common sense is common - but it's not.
DON CHERRY That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
GEORGE MEREDITH Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
HARPER LEE For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without co...
VERA NAZARIAN Common sense is calculation applied to life.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Generally what is right and what is wrong is common sense; but that generality of right and wrong is...
JUSTIN APPEL That was just common sense.
DR. ROBERT LEHR [Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
LORD CHESTERFIELD If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
SAM RAYBURN Common sense ain't common.
WILL ROGERS Margaret came up and got a huge hit to give us a cushion.
CHRIS OLSEN There are a myriad of immigration laws that, when looked at through the common sense of justice, don...
MATTHEW ADAMS If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.
GARY DOER Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon ...
POPE JOHN XXIII Common Sense is very uncommon.
HORACE GREELEY One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between ...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
OSCAR WILDE The mind is a dangerous thing Not Using it is even more dangerous
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON In the world of Investing, common sense is far from common.
CHARLES BENNETT SACHS The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.
JUDAH FREED 'Common sense isn't common place'.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NAS Common sense is the genius of humanity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Only cricket can make a moment like this so confusing and messed up. COMMON SENSE please.
DAVE FORREST There is no school of philosophy that approaches ordinary common sense.
MICHAEL LIPSEY Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Ch...
BRIDGET WILLARD Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any t...
E. F. BENSON Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
LEONARDO DAVINCI I believe the votes are there and I believe it is up to the people of Georgia to let their legislato...
CALVIN HILL Common sense is genius in homespun.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS That is a pretty common thing. It is quite well known.
ED COURTENAY Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
DAVID DEUTSCH A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
ANON. Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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MARGARET GATTY I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
MARGARET THATCHER The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
MARGARET SACKVILLE I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you nee...
MARGARET YOUNG If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people ins...
MARGARET HALSEY