Dennis Miller Quotes

Common sense is very uncommon.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

... common sense is very rare.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

We've lost common sense.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

People who think well, write well

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

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

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.