#common-sense

"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."

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

"Never assume the obvious is true."

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

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."

"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."

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

"I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!"

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

"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."

"Knowledge counts but common sense matters."

"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."

"Things do not change; we change."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"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!"

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

"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."

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

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

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."