Common Sense Quotes
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel E. Morison -
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
Oscar Wilde
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas -
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
Fergus Henderson -
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
Wayne Brady -
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 -
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 -
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler -
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo -
I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
Taylor Sheridan -
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Rene Descartes -
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 -
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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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 -
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald Chambers -
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken -
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen -
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein -
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 will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye -
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
Plato -
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
Oscar Wilde -
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
Napoleon Bonaparte