(456 quotes found)
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18”
Albert Einstein
“If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.”
Robertson Davies
“School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before."”
Ronald Reagan
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.”
Gifford Pinchot
