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• The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.

  Antony Hewish

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

  Owen Gingerich

  Our World, Hands, Design

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• One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Temptation, Philosopher

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• Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

  C. D. Broad

  Philosophical, Thinking, Philosopher

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• We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.

  John Searle

  Knowledge, Two, Mind

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Psychology, Ordinary, Austin

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Play

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• If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Drug, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.247, Algora Publishing

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

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• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Ethical Principles, Views

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Patriotism

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Memorable, Clothes

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• At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

  Robert Cialdini

  Teaching, Assessment, Class

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• Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

  James Vila Blake

  Understanding, Sound, Uniting

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• The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

  James Vila Blake

  Greatness, Judging, Tangled

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• The Bible is common-sense inspired.

  Rees Howells

  Bible, Common, Inspired

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• if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Ambition, Mind, Desire

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• When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.

  Nicola Cornick

  Writing, Names, Historical

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• On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, People, Sick

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• The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Ghost, Satan

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• Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Russell Jacoby

  Half, World, Honest

  Russell Jacoby (1975). “Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing”, Beacon Pr

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Two, Mind, Ordinary

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

  Denis Waitley

  Simple, Yield, Were Meant To Be

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• Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

  Sonny Perdue

  Integrity, Sound, Voters

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• I dont know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. Thats really what I am. But I dont think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

  Jon Tester

  Thinking, Fixing, Tractors

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