Benjamin Franklin

Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.

Topic: Common Sense
Location: Bonneville Salt Flats
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. — Ann Wang

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

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

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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.

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

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For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too. — Egyptian Proverb

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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

› G. K Chesterton

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. — Albert Einstein

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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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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?

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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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Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

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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.

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