Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

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

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I believe in being an innovator.

Common sense is not so common.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

There’s no formula.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

Working out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.