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Common sense hides shame.
-Scottish Proverb
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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
-Proverb
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He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
-Proverb
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No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
-Proverb
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.
-John Berger
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
-Josh Billings
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
-Samuel Butler
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Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.
-Raymond Chandler
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'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.
-Raymond Chandler
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
-Rene Descartes
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Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean.
-James Dye
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
-Euripides
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
-Henry Fielding
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The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
-George Gallup
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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
-Johann von Goethe
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
-Johann von Goethe
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Common Sense is very uncommon.
-Horace Greeley
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My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Books about Common Sense
