Quotes with common sense

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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Kingsley Amis Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
    Stanley And The Women (2011) 266
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Henry David Thoreau My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Katharine Hepburn My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • George Santayana Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • René Descartes Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
    Original: Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Santayana Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Science is simply common sense at its best-that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Margaret Deland Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Sir William Osler Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • An Wang Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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