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Sensible Quotes About Common Sense

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Quote: Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. by author Victor Hugo overlaid on photo of butterfly on leaf
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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.


Quote: The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. by author Dean Inge overlaid on photo of white and black bird
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.


Quote: With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable. by author Dick Strawbridge overlaid on photo of green butterfly perched on purple flower
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With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.


Quote: Philosophy is common sense with big words. by author James Madison overlaid on photo of person wearing suit reading business newspaper
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.


Quote: What is common sense isn't common practice. by author Stephen Covey overlaid on photo of two women sitting on wooden dock over body of water
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What is common sense isn't common practice.


Quote: Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. by author Clive James overlaid on photo of woman in white and black striped shirt standing on yellow sunflower field during daytime
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.


Quote: The most important key to having common sense is actually listening to what it tells you. by author D. Pariz overlaid on photo of brown short coated puppy on white textile
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The most important key to having common sense is actually listening to what it tells you.


Quote: Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. by author Christiane Collage overlaid on photo of silhouette of off-road car
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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.


Quote: Common sense is genius in homespun. by author Alfred North Whitehead overlaid on photo of silhouette of mountain under starry night
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Common sense is genius in homespun.


Quote: Emotion makes the world go round, but common sense keeps it from going too fast. by author Anonymous overlaid on photo of silhouette of person wearing cowboy hat during sunset
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Emotion makes the world go round, but common sense keeps it from going too fast.


Quote: Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden. by author Unknown Author overlaid on photo of man and woman kissing under the sun
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Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden.


Quote: Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense. by author Benjamin Spock overlaid on photo of person getting 1 U.S. dollar banknote in wallet
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Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.


Quote: Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it. by author Bill Murray overlaid on photo of adult yellow Labrador retriever inside black plastic basin
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Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.


Quote: He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. by author Charles Kingsley overlaid on photo of two white flowers
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.




Quote: Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense. by author Eliyahu M. Goldratt overlaid on photo of photo of author Eliyahu M. Goldratt with quote

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.


Quote: The best prophet is common sense. by author Euripides overlaid on photo of three people paddling in canoe
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The best prophet is common sense.


Quote: There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity. by author Evan Esar overlaid on photo of wide lake over sunset view
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.


Quote: The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense. by author Evan Esar overlaid on photo of woman in black and white floral dress sitting on red car hood during daytime
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The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.


Quote: Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. by author Evan Esar overlaid on photo of selective photography of green leaf plant
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Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.


Quote: Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. by author Harriet Beecher Stowe overlaid on photo of sunset
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.


Quote: Common sense is calculation applied to life. by author Henri Frederic Amiel overlaid on photo of blue mountains at daytime
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.


Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.


Quote: 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. by author Joseph Addison overlaid on photo of birds flying over boat
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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.


Quote: Common sense is the ability to see things as they are without prejudice and do things as they ought to be done without influence of any kind. by author Josh Billings overlaid on photo of woman standing between sunflower field during daytime
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Common sense is the ability to see things as they are without prejudice and do things as they ought to be done without influence of any kind.


Quote: Good hard-pan sense is the thing that will wash well, wear well, iron out without wrinkling, and take starch without cracking. by author Josh Billings overlaid on photo of person holding magnifying glass near desk globe
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Good hard-pan sense is the thing that will wash well, wear well, iron out without wrinkling, and take starch without cracking.


Quote: Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense. by author Josh Billings overlaid on photo of man wearing black jacket standing on street
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Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense.


Quote: Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. by author Josh Billings overlaid on photo of person in black long sleeve shirt using brown and white rotary phone
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.


Quote: Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. by author Lord Chesterfield overlaid on photo of grayscale photo of 2 men jumping on water
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Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.


Quote: Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it -- even if I have said it -- unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. by author Peter Ustinov overlaid on photo of yellow and red color textile
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it -- even if I have said it -- unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.


Quote: Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. by author René Descartes overlaid on photo of photo of author René Descartes with quote

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.


Quote: Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense. by author Richard Dawkins overlaid on photo of empty road towards mountains
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.


Quote: It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. by author Robert G. Ingersoll overlaid on photo of purple and white petaled flower
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.


Quote: If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. by author Sam Rayburn overlaid on photo of sunset
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.


Quote: Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. by author Samuel Taylor Coleridge overlaid on photo of two dogs sitting on maroon area rug
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.


Quote: All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. by author Thomas Huxley overlaid on photo of rolls royce car wallpaper
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.


Quote: Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. by author William Somerset Maugham overlaid on photo of short-fur brown cat
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.


Quote: Have common sense and stick to the point. by author William Somerset Maugham overlaid on photo of 1 US dollar banknote
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Have common sense and stick to the point.


Quote: Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. by author William Hazlitt overlaid on photo of colored pencil lined up on top of white surface
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.


Quote: Common sense often makes good law. by author William O. Douglas overlaid on photo of stacks of cash wallpaper
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Common sense often makes good law.


Quote: You can have a respectable profession and a good income and still lack common sense. by author A. D. Aliwat overlaid on photo of short-fur brown cat
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You can have a respectable profession and a good income and still lack common sense.


Quote: No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. by author Ashanti overlaid on photo of bare tree on mountain during sunset
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No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.


Quote: Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. by author An Wang overlaid on photo of brown and black butterfly perched on white flower in close up photography during daytime
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.


Quote: Common sense is the folklore of philosophy. by author Antonio Gramsci overlaid on photo of person with black tattoo on left hand
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Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.


Quote: To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense. by author Baron d'Holbach overlaid on photo of white petaled flower
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.


Quote: Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. by author George Seaton overlaid on photo of group of people waving their hands
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.


Quote: To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. by author Horace Walpole overlaid on photo of woman in blue denim jacket leaning on man's shoulder near body of water
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.


Quote: Common sense is very uncommon. by author Horace Greeley overlaid on photo of gold and silver tube bottle
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Common sense is very uncommon.


Quote: Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. by author Joan Blades overlaid on photo of silhouette of woman during sunset
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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.


In other words, start with what you know, and use a little guesswork, or common sense, or whatever you want to call it, to figure out what you don't know.


Quote: Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. by author John Masefield overlaid on photo of laughing woman photo
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.


Quote: The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. by author Matthew Arnold overlaid on photo of dome tent with galaxy with stars
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.


Quote: Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. by author Margaret Deland overlaid on photo of wide lake over sunset view
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.


Quote: Common sense to one person might be something different to another. by author Taya Kyle overlaid on photo of golden retriever with white background
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.


Quote: Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. by author Amit Abraham overlaid on photo of photo of author Amit Abraham with quote

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.


Quote: Time is the Common Sense of God. by author Khalid Masood overlaid on photo of light match stick
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Time is the Common Sense of God.




Quote: Science ... is organized common sense. by author Joseph Alexander Leighton overlaid on photo of mason jar of paintbrush lot
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Science ... is organized common sense.


Quote: Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. by author Thomas Jefferson overlaid on photo of photo of author Thomas Jefferson with quote

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.


Quote: Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. by author George Bernard Shaw overlaid on photo of elephant play with brown sand
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.


Quote: You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. by author Will Rogers overlaid on photo of close-up photograph of black dreadnought acoustic guitar
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.


Quote: Taste is the common sense of genius. by author Victor Hugo overlaid on photo of A man in a black suit loosening his tie
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Taste is the common sense of genius.


Quote: Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. by author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe overlaid on photo of black and white butterfly in close up photography
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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.


Quote: Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. by author George Santayana overlaid on photo of man standing on sand while spreading arms beside calm body of water
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.


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