#common-sense

"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!"

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

"The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain"

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

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

"Never assume the obvious is true."

"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!"