#common sense

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. ↗

— Robert Taft

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly. ↗

— Melissa Bean

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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

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Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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