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Stephen Hawking

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.

Topic: Common Sense

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

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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

› Ecclesiasticus 31:1

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

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. — William James

Common Sense Humor

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

Common Sense Education Experience

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

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

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Trust in God but lock your doors. — Russian Proverb

Common Sense Trust

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

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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.

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

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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 genius dressed in its working clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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

Common Sense Perception Truth

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

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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

› G. K Chesterton

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

Adversity Common Sense

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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