#common-sense

"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."

"Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind."

"Things do not change; we change."

"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."

"Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions."

"Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."

"If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking."

"I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!"

"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."

"People won't buy study guides for a dollar, but they will pay 100 dollars for test answers. A ‪#startup‬‬‬‬ should keep this mentality in mind."

"Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience."

"There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you)."

"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

"Never assume the obvious is true."

"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."

"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."