When you discover that you are
riding a dead horse, the best
strategy is to dismount.

Dakota tribal saying

  

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.

Edward Abbey

 
Common sense, alas in spite
of our educational institutions,
is a rare commodity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

 

If common sense has not
the brilliancy of the sun, it has
the fixity of the stars.

Fernan Caballero

  

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best
wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties,
take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot,
bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness
with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.

Horatio Walpole

   

   

Common sense has given to words their ordinary signification,
and common sense is the genius of mankind.

Francois Pierre Guizot

 

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

Victor Hugo

Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius.

George Bernard Shaw

  
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

  

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without
education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

  
 
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright

  

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Emerson

  

The three great essentials to achieve anything
worth while are first, hard work; second,
stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Thomas Alva Edison

  

  
Success is more a function of consistent
common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

   

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Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a person's upper chamber,
if it has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

  
  

Common sense and nature will do a lot
to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham

  

There are forty kinds
of lunacy, but only one
kind of common sense.

African Proverb
  

The rule for traveling abroad
is to take our common sense
with us, and leave our
prejudices behind.

William Hazlitt

   

  

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