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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucan
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Common sense hides shame.
Scottish Proverb
Good sense is the master of human life.
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Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.
Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean.
James Dye
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Alfred North Whitehead
Common Sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo DaVinci
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Madeleine L'Engle
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
Proverb
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
Henry David Thoreau
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Giambattista Vico
