Common Sense Quotes - Page 3

• My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Success, Intellectual, Intelligence

  "Helen Gurley Brown's feminist legacy", www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Logic, Classroom

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Science, Ugly

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• Common sense is as rare as genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Serious, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.395, Penguin

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• Common sense often makes a good law.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Common

  "Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 25, 1957.

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Nature, Trekking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

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• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  F. L. Lucas

  Art, War, Tired

  F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Mistake, Dorian Grey

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  Douglas Adams

  Character, Numbers, Lasts

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Common, Prevision

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Funny, Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

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• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Common Folk, Literature

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• Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

  Julian Casablancas

  Vanity, Common

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• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Pauline Hanson

  Mother, Running, Children

  "The Brexit factor: Why one in four voters abandoned the major parties". "Background Briefing" with David Lewis, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2016.

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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Bullying, Two, Pedants

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Jail, Society

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leadership, Business, Grace

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  Myrna Loy

  Thinking, Hygiene, Carrying On

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• I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Hate, Modern Life

  Quoted in Fred Metcalfe The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986).

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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

  Death, Rocks, Two

  Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Time, Motivation

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.228, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  Alan Watts

  Taught Us, Culture, Aliens

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