C Quotes
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“Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.”
“Common sense is as rare as genius.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Common sense is BETTER for one sphere of life, science for another, philosophic criticism for a third; but whether either be TRUER absolutely, Heaven only knows.”
“Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...
“Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.”
“Common sense is common, has no imagination, and only works by precedent. It leaves the man who follows it poorer, if not in pocket, then in his heart. Fuck common sense.”
Source: Glorious Exploits
“Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“Common sense is genius in homespun.”
“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
“Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.”
“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”
Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico
“Common sense is like deodorant. People that need it most don't use it.”
“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
“Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.”
“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.”
Source: Society Of Mind
“Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential.”
Source: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“common sense is not a specific destination but rather an ongoing process. It is, however, an essential ingredient of the recipe for success.”
Source: VishwaSutras: Universal Principles For Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
“Common sense is not always common.”
“Common sense is not always common practice.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“Common sense is not just for the left or the right, and not just for the black or the white. It’s not just for young and not just for the old, it stirs the timid as well as the bold. Much like the wind that whips Maine in the fall, when it’s felt…it moves us all.”
“Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic”
“CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.”
“Common sense is not too common.”
“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”
“Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”
“Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.”
“Common sense is only irritating in other people”
Source: Peccadillo: A Katla Novel
“Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of humbleness without being dissipated by disputes, showdowns, or down-right self-righteousness. ("Wit of the staircase")”
“Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology
“Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
“Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.”
“Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”
“Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”
“Common sense is strengthened by joy.”
“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
“Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.”
“Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.”
“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
Source: Discourse on Method
“Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.”
“Common sense is the best prophet.”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century