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No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. Lord Salisbury, letter 15th June 1877
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
Common sense has no place in the quantum world. Professor Michio Kaku
All religions have this in common: that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements. Pierre Charron
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense. Thomas H Huxley, Collected Essays 1893-4
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common Sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Donn Herold
6I cheerfully leave common sense to common people. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie I ***** starring Geraldine McEwan & Amanda Kirby & Lynsey Baxter & Vivienne Ross et al, Brodie to George, ITV 1978
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Ingersoll
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story. Gertrude Stein, Selected Operas and Plays
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. Pablo Picasso
Nowadays 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, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. Baron d’Holbach
There is nothing more common than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright
67,941. Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. Rene Descartes
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science in general, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense. Lewis Wolpert
By simple common sense I don’t believe in God. Charlie Chaplin
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Hawkins 4th August 1787
The only problem with common sense is it’s so … common. House of Cards s4e8: Chapter 47, Frank, Netflix 2015
Government policy has nothing to do with common sense. Yes, Minister s2e7: A Question of Loyalty, Sir Humphrey before Select Committee, BBC 1981