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Quotes about Common sense

Sticking feather's up your butt, does NOT make you a chicken!

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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. But men of intellect will believe anything - if it appeals to their ego, their vanity, their sense of self-importance.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

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Kedar Joshi
Source: Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.  

Heraclitus
 
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It is impossible to make anything "fool proof", for fools are so ingenious.

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Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to fust in us unused.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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When did common sense become so uncommon?

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"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."

Chapman Cohen
 
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The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary.  Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision.  Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves.

Werner Erhard
 
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The chief enemy of creativity is common sense.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso : Spanish painter & founder of cubism
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
 
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt : American statesman (32nd US president: 1933-45)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
 
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Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

William Orville Douglas (1898 - 1980)
Source: Quoted in the New York Times, January 20, 1980
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Will Rogers : American humorist & writer
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
 
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Common sense is not so common.

François Marie Arouet Voltaire : French poet, historian & satirist
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Source: Dictionnaire Philosophique
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
Source: Speak, Memory, 1947, ch 1.
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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Victor Marie Hugo : French poet, novelist & romanticist leader
Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885)
 
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The one thing you cannot teach a person is common sense.

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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
Source: Albert W. Daw Collection
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The greatest asset of a man, a business or a nation is faith. The men who built this country and those who made it prosper during its darkest days were men whose faith in its future was unshakable. Men of courage, they dared to go forward despite all hazards; men of vision, they always looked forward, never backward. Christianity, the greatest institution humanity has ever known, was founded by twelve men, limited in education, limited in resources, but with an abundance of faith and divine leadership. The vision essential to clear thinking; the common sense needed for wise decisions; the courage of convictions based on facts not fancies; and the constructive spirit of faith as opposed to the destructive forces of doubt will preserve our Christian ways of life.

Thomas J. Watson : American businessman, founder of IBM
Thomas Watson (1874 - 1956)
 
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Though conditions have grown puzzling in their complexity, though changes have been vast, yet we may remain absolutely sure of one thing; that now as ever in the past, and as it will ever be in-the future, there can be no substitute for elemental virtues, for the elemental qualities to which we allude when we speak of a man, not only as a good man, but as emphatically a man. We can build up the standard of individual citizenship and individual well-being, we can raise the national standard and make it what it can and shall be made, only by each of us steadfastly keeping in mind that there can be no substitute for the world-old commonplace qualities of truth, justice, and courage, thrift, industry, common sense and genuine sympathy with the fellow feelings of others.

Theodore Roosevelt : American statesman (26th US president: 1901-09)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
 
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Theodore Roosevelt : American statesman (26th US president: 1901-09)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
 
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Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941)
Source: Lessons from the varsity of life
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Source: Men of Mathematics, by E. T. Bell
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Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : English romantic poet & critic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
 
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
 
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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 (1596 - 1650)
Source: Le Discours de la Méthode
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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