Common Sense

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach

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"Common sense is not too common."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker

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"What is common sense isn't common practice."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

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"Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition."

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Russell Sherman Author, Poet

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"Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

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"Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician

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"Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense."

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Hannah Unknown

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"Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment."

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist

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"What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?"

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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"There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist

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"The heresy of heresies was common sense."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist

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"The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable."

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet

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"...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history."

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