Contradictory Common Sense Quotes & Sayings

Just let your skin breathe. — Felicity Huffman

Most people never question the core beliefs they grow up with," Emil confirmed. "You can look back on any culture five hundred years later and wonder how they could have ever believed some of the contradictory or flat-out insane things they accepted as law or common sense. — Elliott James

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. — Arthur C. Clarke

Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying. — Bernie Siegel

Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands. — Malachi Ritscher

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common". — Robert A. Heinlein

When I listened to public prayers in evangelical churches, I heard people telling God what to do, combined with thinly veiled hints on how others should behave. When — Philip Yancey

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life. — Steve Carlton

What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man of common sense. — Baron D'Holbach

I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten