Common Sense Quotes
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If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
Elihu Thomson
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel E. Morison
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
Oscar Wilde
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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
Safra A. Catz
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Madeline Zima
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Rene Descartes
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
Oscar Wilde
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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
Umberto Eco
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I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.
D. H. Lawrence
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
