Charles Simmons Quotes

Common sense is often underrated.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

... common sense is very rare.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.