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Common Sense |
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 | The philosophy of a generation is the common sense of the next. — Gebhard von Blücher, 1742-1819, German field marshal 26 likes |
 | Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 11 likes |
 | That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 7 likes |
 | Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 6 likes |
 | I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt 6 likes |
 | Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | Common sense is the best sense I know of. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes |
 | Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 4 likes |
 | Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 3 likes |
 | A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 2 likes |
 | Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense |
 | Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. |
 | The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
