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When you discover that you are
riding
a dead
horse, the best
strategy
is to dismount.
Dakota tribal saying |
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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.
Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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Common sense has given to words their ordinary
signification,
and common sense is the genius of mankind.
Francois Pierre Guizot
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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of,
education.
Victor Hugo
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Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein |
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius.
George Bernard Shaw |
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they
are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense
without
education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll |
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| There is nothing more uncommon
than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working
clothes.
Emerson |
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The three great essentials to achieve anything
worth while are first, hard work; second,
stick-to-itiveness;
third, common sense.
Thomas Alva Edison |
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Success is more a function of consistent
common
sense than it is of genius.
An Wang |
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Science
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if it has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver
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Common
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There
are forty kinds
of lunacy, but only one
kind of common sense.
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