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Quotations regarding 'Common sense'

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I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
Simon Cowell, British Entertainer (1959-  )
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
Joan Crawford, American Actress (1908-1977)
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist (1913-1995)
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland, American Novelist (1857-1945)
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland, American Novelist (1857-1945)
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes, French Mathematician (1596-1650)
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
David Deutsch, Scientist
Common sense often makes good law.
William O. Douglas, American Judge (1898-1980)
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
Esther Dyson, American Scientist (1951-  )
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
Samuel Fuller, American Director (1911-1997)
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet (1749-1832)
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
Fred G. Gosman, -
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley, American Editor (1811-1872)
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
Matthew Green, British Poet
 
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