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- Nov 07, 2020
Common Sense Quotes
Short lines in praise of plain, practical reasoning.
Common sense is easy to expect and surprisingly rare in practice, whether the setting is a televised game show or an everyday disagreement. This page collects quotes that notice the gap between expecting sound judgment and actually seeing it. See also Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nails
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- Nov 07, 2020
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
- Better
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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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
- Compromise
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
- Free
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
- Political
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
- Human
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.
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You have to have the common sense.
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense is very uncommon.
- Life
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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