Common Sense
Common Sense is not a gift because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it.
Christopher Paolini
“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.”
Voltaire
A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
“Common sense is not so common.”
René Descartes
“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. V
“Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.”
René Descartes
Discourse on Method
“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
“A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”
Philip Dormer Stanhope
“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.”
Gertrude Stein
Selected Operas and Plays
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”