183 quotes found
“Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.”
“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, were being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, thi...”
“If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by ...”
“Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own ...”
“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirro...”
“It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease inst...”
“All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.”
“The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opini...”
“Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.”
“If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, a...”
“Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.”
“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.”
“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trus...”
“Need doesn't care about being sensible.”
“Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply thatfeelingsa...”
“The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.”
“Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.”
“I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.”
“I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.”
“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do ...”
