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904 Common Sense quotes by 683 unique authors
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The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
— Benjamin Spock
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Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common…
— Benjamin Spock
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
— William Ralph Inge
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Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am…
— Stephen Covey
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Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today…
— Abraham Maslow
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Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and…
— Fred Upton
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No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
— Thomas Sowell
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We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give…
— Deval Patrick
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole…
— Frances Perkins
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Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be…
— Charles Duhigg
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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
— Lin Yutang
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It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are…
— Thomas Nagel
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All of science is largely formalized common sense.
— Nancy Pearcey
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The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
— H. L. Mencken
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
— David Deutsch
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
— John Masefield
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right…
— Edwin Land
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We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but…
— Charles Handy
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