Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

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.

Common sense is often underrated.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

... common sense is very rare.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

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.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.