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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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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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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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel E. Morison
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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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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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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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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
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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
