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  Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it  agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

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  Tags in Believe, Buddha, Common Sense, Own, Reason, Agree

• Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

  George Seaton

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  Tags in Faith, Common Sense

• Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

  Bob Ney

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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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• Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

  Giambattista Vico

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  Tags in Common Sense, Judgement

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

  Gertrude Stein

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• Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana

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• If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they’ll generally stay out of trouble.

  Steve Chabot

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• Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

  George Jean Nathan

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  Tags in Common Sense, Bourgeoisie, Aristocracy

• Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

  Sonny Perdue

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• The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

  George Berkeley

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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

  Wayne Brady

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• But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

  William Robertson Smith

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  Tags in Common Sense, Arbitrary, Myth, Attach

• I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren’t aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that’s inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

  Sabrina Lloyd

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  Tags in Common Sense, Planets, Inhabited, Alien

• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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  Tags in Common Sense, Observation, School, Logic

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Common Sense, Taste, Clothes, Common

• To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,

  Horace Walpole

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Common Sense, Acceptance, Philosophy

• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• I always try to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Common Sense, Worth, Good