Shelby Steele Quotes

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

I am not a professional speaker, nor a studied orator, but I am an old soldier and a farmer, and as my sole objective is to speak what I think, you will excuse me if I do it in my own way.

I'm just straightforward.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.