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Common Sense |
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"Le sens commun n'est pas
si commun (Common sense is not
very common)."
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-- Voltaire
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| “Common
sense is the knack of seeing things are they are, and doing things
as they ought to be done.” |
| -- C.E. Stowe |
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"Common
sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
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Albert
Einstein
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| "It's counter to common sense, but common
sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." |
| -- Ian J. Davenport |
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| "The passing moment is all we can be sure
of ; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from
it." |
| -- W. Somerset Maugham |
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| "Nothing is more fairly
distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already
has!" |
| -- René Descartes (1596-1650),
French mathematician, philosopher |
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| "Believe nothing, no matter where you read
it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with
your own reason and your own common sense." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
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| "Common sense is in spite of, not the
result of, education." |
| -- Victor Hugo (1802-85), French
poet, dramatist, writer |
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| "Common sense often makes good law." |
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-- William Orville Douglas
(1898-1980), American jurist, US Supreme Court justice |
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“Horse sense is the thing a
horse has which keeps it from betting on people.” |
| -- W.C. Fields, American comedian |
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| "Science is nothing but trained and
organized common sense." |
| -- Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825-95), British biologist |
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"Common sense in an uncommon
degree is what the world calls wisdom."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834), English poet, critic |
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| “Common sense and a sense of
humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense
of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
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| -- William James, American philosopher |
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| "One pound of learning requires ten pounds
of common sense to apply it." |
| -- Persian Proverb |
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they
lose their common sense." |
| -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946),
American writer |
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| "Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." |
| -- Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| "We seldom attribute common sense except
to those who agree with us." |
| -- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80),
French writer |
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| "Falling in love consists merely in
uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense." |
| -- Helen Rowland (1876-1950), American actress |
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| "The freethinking of one age is the common
sense of the next." |
| -- Matthew Arnold |
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| "Common sense is man's essential faculty
of reason that develops solutions to spontaneous challenges. Common
sense, at least to the extent found in man, is uniquely human." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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