Common Sense

(217 votes)   Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(210 votes)   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
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(209 votes)   Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(202 votes)   The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(201 votes)   Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(160 votes)   They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(135 votes)   One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian Proverbs
Sayings of Persian Origin

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(132 votes)   Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(123 votes)   He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

Rafael Sabatini
1875-1950, Italian-born British Author

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(120 votes)   "I'm always a day late and a dollar short."

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(110 votes)   Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(103 votes)   Common sense hides shame.

Gaelic Proverbs
Sayings of Gaelic Origin

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(102 votes)   Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(102 votes)   No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

Ashanti Proverbs
Sayings of Ashanti Origin

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(89 votes)   Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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