Commonsense Quotes

“If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.”
― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Faith requires following the power of a whisper.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world.

1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized.

2.He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce.

3.He married his cousin.

4.He had an estranged relationship with his son.

5. He had his first child out of wedlock.

6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people.

7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Scarcity of common sense makes it a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“She’s a firm believer in the healing power of normality. The ordinary little things: the sharing of stories, of food, of smiles, of small comforts. These are the key to survival.”
― Charity Norman, The Secrets of Strangers

“[Q]uantum physics is not replaced by another sort of physics at large scales. It actually gives rise to classical physics. Our everyday, commonsense reality is, in this view, simply what quantum mechanics looks like when you’re six feet tall.”
― Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

“We have five senses, but the wise have six.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Say I decide that it would be a good thing to insert pictures here demonstrating cultural relativism, displaying an act that is commonsensical in one culture but deeply distressing in another. I know, I think, I'll get some pictures of a Southeast Asian dog meat market. Like me, most readers will likely resonate with dogs. Good plan! On to Google Images and the result is that I spend hours transfixed, unable to stop, torturing myself with picture after picture of dogs being carted off to market. Dogs being butchered, cooked and sold. Pictures of humans going about their day's work in a market indifferent to a crate stuffed to the top with suffering dogs. I imagine the fear those dogs feel. How they are hot, thirsty, in pain. I think, what if these dogs had come to trust humans? I think of their fear and confusion. I think, what if one of the dogs whom I've loved had to experience that? What if this happened to a dog my children loved? And with my heart racing, I realize that I hate these people. Hate! Every last one of them and despise their culture. And it takes a locomotive's worth of effort for me to admit that I can't justify that hatred and contempt. That mine is a mere moral intuition. That there are things that I do that would evoke the same response in some distant person whose morality and humanity are certainly no less than mine. And that but for the randomness of where I happen to have been born, I could have readily had their views instead. The thing that makes the tragedy of commonsense morality so tragic, is the intensity with which you just know that They are deeply wrong. In general, our morally tinged cultural institutions, religion, nationalism, ethnic pride, team spirit, bias us toward our best behaviors when we are single shepherds, facing a potential tragedy of the commons. They make us less selfish in Me versus Us situations, but they send us hurtling toward our worst behaviors when confronting Thems and their different moralities.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Live with purpose, love with passion, laugh with caution.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“What soul is to to the body, common sense is to the mind.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“These men mislead fools or misled fools themselves.
I rather take 12 breaths
and rely on my common sense.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Schools should make ‘common sense’ a course of study.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“In love persistently ask but this- are you loved in return?”
― Ruby Mohan, UNSETTLED

“Ultimately it is a good incentive that motivates one to be good.”
― Ruby Mohan, The Kidnapping

“I'm an astute judge of human character. You, my friend, are nothing but a bankroll.”
― Ruby Mohan, The Kidnapping

“There is no code that can't be cracked.”
― Ruby Mohan, The Kidnapping

“องค์ประกอบของกษัตริย์น่าขันสิ้นดี แรกสุดมันแยกคนผู้หนึ่งออกจากหนทางแห่งการรับข้อมูล กระนั้นกลับให้อำนาจเขากระทำการในกรณีต่างๆ ที่จำเป็นต้องมีวิจารณญาณสูงสุด สภาวะแห่งการเป็นกษัตริย์ปิดกั้นเขาจากโลก กระนั้น กิจธุระแห่งการเป็นกษัตริย์กลับเรียกร้องให้เขารู้จักโลกอย่างถ้วนถี่”
― โทมัส เพน, สามัญสำนึก

“Illogicality is the deficiency of common sense.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Most of the Gen X and Gen Z rebel and question their parents for everything. and most of them live with their parent, and that's why they vote for democrats! But I bet you when you will find out that Democrats support tax on wealth, that mean they want sum of the money that your grandparents, parents, or loved once left behind to you! And also when you start paying you own bills. You will realize that everytime you voted for liberals you been shooting yourself on the foot! I'm pretty sure you will #WalkAway from the liberals like I did after 25 yrs of being Democrat, and voted for conservatives.
Being born and raised in a communist I can tell you life it's much easier under a capitalist system than under communist system, because when it come to work you can't say no to communist dictator, and if you do they will send you in a labour camp. And under the capitalist/Market system you can chose to work for them or not, you can work for yourself work as much or as less you want”
― Zybejta "Beta" Metani' Marashi