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William James

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Ian J. Davenport

It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Thomas Huxley

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Jonathan Swift

But when a Man???s Fancy gets astride on his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense, is Kickt out of Doors; the first Proselyte he makes, is Himself, and when that is once compass???d, the Diffi

Lord Chesterfield

Common sense is the best sense I know of.

Henry Louis Mencken

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

W. Somerset Maugham

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

Rene Descartes

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has

Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

George Will

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Santayana

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

William Orville Douglas

Common sense often makes good law.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Donald G. Smith

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

Persian Proverb

It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.

Dick Cavett

I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.

Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Sir Walter Besant

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

Chapman Cohen

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Thomas H. Huxley

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas H. Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Douglas Noel Adams

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

William Jefferson Clinton

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays 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.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 49.

Order is heav'n's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.

Buddha

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.

Annie Dillard

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Walter Lippmann

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. 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.

Hugh Blair

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Norman O. Brown

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

William John Bennett

Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

James Arthur Baldwin

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.

JAMES T. FIELDS: _Courtesy._

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers,-- It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport ro

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

TENNYSON: _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,_ St. 4.

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captive ill. SHAKS.: Sonnet lxvi. Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are. In his simplicity sublime.

Laurie E. Colwin

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. vi., St. 2.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter--rather more; Too common! Never morning wore To evening but some heart did break.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Edward Albee

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Burton Rascoe

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Anthony D'Angelo

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with re

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

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.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Common sense is not so common.

Common sense isn't...

"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire

[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

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

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.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

"Common sense isn't really all that common."

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

"Common sense is in spite of, not as a result of education." -- Hugo

"I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it." - Calvin

"Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat."

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling height

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. 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.

"The Death of Common Sense"

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

"Common sense" is an oxymoron.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

"Common sense": Isn't when it comes to laws

Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human strug

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Anderson is a common name but 'Chang' is much more common.