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Common Sense Quotes

Bonneville Salt Flats

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

Benjamin Franklin

Common Sense

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

Benjamin Franklin

Common Sense, Learning

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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

Common Sense, Education, Experience

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Lake Mead, Redstone

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

George Orwell

Common Sense, Intelligence, Leadership, Sacrifice

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

G. K Chesterton

Common Sense, Society

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

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

Winston Churchill

Common Sense, Conviction, Honor

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Valley of Fire State Park

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

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California, San Diego

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

Thomas Paine

Common Sense, Thinking

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Arches National Park

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson

Common Sense, Money, Planning, Wealth

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Yosemite National Park

Common sense is not so common.

Thomas Paine

Common Sense

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Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park

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

Thomas Edison

Common Sense, Persistence, Work

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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

Common Sense

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Caribbean Sea

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common Sense, Wisdom

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Lake Tahoe

Trust in God but lock your doors.

Russian Proverb

Common Sense, Trust

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Cancun, Mexico

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Common Sense, Education

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Hawaii, Maui

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common Sense

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Nevada, Reno

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common Sense, Negotiation

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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

Common Sense

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Grand Staircase-Escalante

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Common Sense, Thinking

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Zion National Park

Don’t use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

Mark Twain

Common Sense, Communication

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Glacier National Park

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

Mark Twain

Common Sense, Society, Thinking

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Lake Tahoe

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

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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

Common Sense

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Cancun, Mexico

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common Sense

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Grand Cayman

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

Gertrude Stein

Common Sense, Society

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Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

Edward Bradford Titchener

Common Sense

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Glacier National Park

For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too.

Egyptian Proverb

Adversity, Common Sense

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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Ecclesiasticus 31:1

Common Sense, Communication, Speech

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