Sentences with phrase «sense than common sense»

I know that researchers usually prefer «counterintuitive» results, but in matters like these it is often the case that science is better judged by common sense than common sense by science.

Not exact matches

«Since the first edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was published in 1999, much has changed, and no one is more aware of this than mutual fund pioneer John Bogle.

All this may sound like plain common sense or corporate Pollyannaism, but it's harder than it looks.

If that sounds like a compromise, it isn't, unless status ranks higher than common sense.

Some of these strategies may seem like common sense; however, they represent solutions to the most common reasons why the typical person develops a less than perfect credit rating.

The FSTA is also disappointed that the New York Attorney General has chosen the path of hurried litigation after years of watching daily fantasy sports thrive and entertain in New York rather than pursuing the path of common sense regulation or legislation as Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida have done.

Moreover, it's common sense that one employer and employee response to rising healthcare costs would be turning to plans in which the lofty deductible offsets the exorbitant premiums — especially among younger employees who, generally speaking, need medical services a lot less than their older coworkers.

You will note the Reserve Bank's rhetoric is precisely along these lines, with policy driven by common - sense and a strenuous effort to understand the cycle, rather than some doctrinal adherence to a simple rule.

The market, for example, thinks XYZ is going to grow more than ABC — of course, this is not always accurate or based on common sense.

Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors — large and small — should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.»

Neither does it survive a basic common - sense test: Buying insurance against a market crash from other market participants is no different than buying a policy against a crash of the insurance industry from an insurance company.

Peter G. Miller, author of The Common Sense Mortgage, is a real estate writer syndicated in more than 125 newspapers nationwide.

He's also the author of «Conversations That Count: A common sense guide to finding the right advisor, growing wealth faster, and retiring earlier than ever.»

Perhaps P is true for another reason other than G. Additionally, you claims about life have purpose is fallacious, i.e. argument from incredulity or common sense.

Third, a sales pitch under these conditions is more likely than not to make the experience for the «buyer» rather negative, and any person with common sense will tell you that a negative experience takes multiple positive experiences just to make up for the one negative.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

Father Maturi has more than common sense, obviously, and there will be plenty of people who recognize this and want to be a part of something that means hope for the future of that town.

This confidence in the perspicuous insight of common sense may indeed allow for more sophistication than various fundamentalist follies, but it is hardly an adequate approach.

If one has any common sense, reading the Bible in it's entirety makes more Atheists than Christians.

It's not that huge a «leap of common sense and logic» to realize that God is no different than any of the other gods we've ever had.

You have more common sense than most christians I know these days.

Ignoring all this, and treating all animals other than ourselves as purposeless, does not conform to common sense or to the evidence.

But better to be instructed in the Creed than to be given common sense about better living or to hear the clergy's exasperations with U.S. foreign policy — things gotten more easily, and probably more interestingly, from the op - ed page of the Sunday paper.

But there seems to me at the common - sense level something here that we must take seriously, more seriously than any other element in the traditional Easter apologetic.

When trouble appears in one's own life which can not be mastered, a devastating sense of frustration and futility is far more common than among those who are less self - sufficient and more willing to depend on God.

Rice «methodically tied Blanchard in knots over how to interpret the proslavery implications of specific texts» while «Blanchard returned repeatedly to «the broad principle of common equity and common sense» that he found in Scripture, to «the general principles of the Bible» and «the whole scope of the Bible»» rather than specifics.

Black Protestants are more likely (47 %) to rely on religion than in 2007 (43 %), and less likely to look to common sense than religion (41 %, compared to 47 %) when looking for similar guidance.

We know that Aristotelian physics, though a perfect example of «common sense,» is actually less accurate (and much less useful or powerful) than Newtonian physics.

Common sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generCommon sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next genercommon in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generation.

Well, then clearly common sense dictates that they need to be ministered TO, and they can certainly find other ways to give other than fiscally while they are in that position.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

There is no need to repeat the common sense on these matters that has been said by many writers far better than I could say it.

However — and this is well worth noting — the Bible, without adding more internal contradiction than is already present in its pages, will also support common sense interpretations of its texts and theologies.

the crazies are breeding faster than common sense — education is failing to teach realities (due to the religious right cuts)-- it won't be long before we blow this planet up — hehe

Perhaps Cardinal Parolin meant «paradigm shift» in some other sense than Thomas Kuhn's (although Kuhn's notion of paradigm - shift - as - rupture is the common understanding of the term).

A small amount of logic and common sense proves athiest belief to be nothing more than a belief which is a religion that does not believe in a god, nothing more, nothing less.

I am hoping he is just a crackpot whose ego is bigger than his common sense.

The prophet Mohamed got married to many women not because he was crazy.Some women were widows, and some were much older than him... So he wasn't looking for beauty and youth.And hehads to get married to those women for spreading Islam.Please read and use your common sense and don't just be blinded by prejudice and stereotype.tHANKS FOR READING

I am claiming that the Bible has a different common sense than we do, and that therefore there is a problem as to how to relate the teachings and stories of the Bible to us today.

What do I mean when I say that our common sense is different now than it was in (for instance) first century Palestine or the fourth century Roman Empire?

How is our common sense different now than in the days when the Bible was written and our doctrine was formulated?

Common sense, if Jesus suffered what no one will never suffer then He has proven to humanity that it can be done and that He was willing to sacrifice himself in flesh, He did it to prove that he loves us more than anything and love is the only reason to exist.

I would suggest than one interpret scripture carefully and thoughtfully taking original language and historical context into consideration because often what seems like common sense to us here and now might not have anything to do with what the original message was about.

This sense of creativity is often overlooked by those who inquire about the topic because most inquiries are concerned with generic traits and abilities common to all processes rather than with the conditions of processes which are peculiarly creative.

Sounds a lot like a situation where she loved her boyfriend more than her common sense.

I pray that God shows you more compassion, mercy and common sense than you show others... I bet you think you're a Christian too.

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

This idea that a particular region of space - time may be occupied by more than one entity without reducing the relation of those entities to that of part to whole is so strange to our common sense that further explanation is needed.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Fallon shares his amazement of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by saying, «They're speaking out with more guts, passion, conviction and common sense than most adults.