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Common Sense Quotes

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Roy T. Bennett
“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
tags: character, class, common-sense, dignity, happiness, health, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, life, life-quotes, love, manners, money, morals, patience, respect, time, trust
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Christopher Paolini
“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”
― Christopher Paolini
tags: common-sense, humor, smart
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George Carlin
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin
tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
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Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays 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, The Picture of Dorian Gray
tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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Voltaire
“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
tags: apothegm, common-sense
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains
tags: common-sense, wisdom
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J.K. Rowling
“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― J.K. Rowling
tags: common-sense, hermione-granger, knowledge, logic, reason, skepticism
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Ray Bradbury
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
― Ray Bradbury
tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen
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Henry David Thoreau
“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden
tags: common-sense, inspirational, philosophy
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Thomas A. Edison
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison
tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison
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Shannon L. Alder
“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder
tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
tags: afraid, bravery, common-sense, fear, idiots, scared
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Isaac Asimov
“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers
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Henry Ford
“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
― Henry Ford
tags: common-sense, inspirational
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Thomas Paine
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
tags: common-sense
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H.L. Mencken
“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
― H.L. Mencken
tags: american, common-sense, corruption, decency, force, hate, honesty, humor, politicians, politics, republic, trust, united-states
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René Descartes
“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
― Rene Descartes
tags: common-sense, humor, irony
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Stuart Chase
“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
― Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action
tags: common-sense, misattributed-to-einstein
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Ludwig von Mises
“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
― Ludwig von Mises
tags: common-sense, directional, hard-work
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Winston S. Churchill
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Winston Churchill
tags: common-sense
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Gavin de Becker
“intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart”
― Gavin De Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
tags: common-sense, intuition
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: africa, africans, amorous, apartheid, attraction, black-people, color, common-sense, face, falling-in-love, fancy, human-beings, intelligence, knowledge, liking, love, memories, memory, michael-bassey-johnson, nigerians, race, wisdom, wise, wise-men, wise-people
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Victor Hugo
“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
― Victor Hugo
tags: common-sense, education
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W.C. Fields
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ”
― W.C. Fields
tags: betting, common-sense, horses, humor
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Henry Kissinger
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
― Henry Kissinger
tags: common-sense, peace, soldier, war
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William Blake
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
― William Blake
tags: common-sense, inspirational, wisdom
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“He who must travel happily must travel light.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
tags: a-good-idea, common-sense
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe
tags: common-sense, senisibility
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Marc Jampole
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the
hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.”
― Marc Jampole
tags: common-sense, inspirational, literary, philosophical, reality-quotes, realization, sad-but-true
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Marc Jampole
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
― Marc Jampole, The Brothers Silver
tags: common-sense, literary-quote, literature-quotes, philosophical, sad-but-true, saving-souls, saving-the-world, self-awareness
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