#common sense

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

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As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. ↗

— David Deutsch

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Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first. ↗

— Esther Dyson

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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

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And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

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