COMMON SENSE QUOTES III

quotations about common sense

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Common sense is a rare virtue. If parents would exercise common sense in giving good and constructive suggestions to their children and making right impressions upon their minds in early life, there would not be so many misfits in the world.

WALTER MATTHEWS

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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.

RENÉ DESCARTES

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If common sense were as unerring as calculus, as some suggest, I don't understand why so many mistakes are made so often by so many people.

CARY WINKEL

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Often, there is a temptation not to conduct research because the answer to a question is "common sense." Unfortunately, common sense is not so common and is often wrong.

MICHAEL G. AAMODT

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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

VICTOR HUGO

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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

W. R. ALGER

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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.

CARL BEREITER

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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.

PETER USTINOV

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Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other.

TOM HEEHLER

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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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Many people are hunting after uncommon sense, but they never find it a good deal. Uncommon sense is of the nature of genius, and all genius is the gift of God and can't be had, like hens' eggs, for the hunting.

JOSH BILLINGS

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The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.

KATHRYN SMITH

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Common sense is a kind of intuitive judgment that some men possess, enabling them to give good advice upon most matters. It is gained by close observation, which stores the mind with a stock of useful knowledge, and the happy tact of using the same as opportunities arise.

JAMES PLATT

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Common sense is like sanity. Either we know and can recognize it without reflection, or else no amount of explanation will make it clear.

FRITS VON HOLTHOON & DAVID R. OLSON

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The best prophet is common sense.

EURIPIDES

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Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure
that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

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Common sense is not something rigid and immobile, but is continually transforming itself, enriching itself with scientific ideas and with philosophical opinions which have entered ordinary life.

ANTONIO GRAMSCI

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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense, too, he is not far from genius.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.

JACQUES MARITAIN

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