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.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.
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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!
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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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?
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
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Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.
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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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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.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
