(457 quotes found)
“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
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic”
“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
Euripides
“FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”
Ambrose Bierce
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Gertrude Stein
“Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18”
Albert Einstein
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
Henry Louis Mencken
