Edward Bradford Titchener

Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

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Never spend your money before you have earned it. — Thomas Jefferson

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

› G. K Chesterton

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Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. — Winston Churchill

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Look at the stars and not down at your own feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

› Stephen Hawking

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A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

› William Penn

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

› Benjamin Franklin

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. — Thomas Edison

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

› Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

› Buddha

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. — Robert G. Ingersoll

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do. — Mark Twain

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Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. — Arnold Glasow

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Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

› Henry David Thoreau

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. — George Orwell

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