Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Retaining our capacity for reasonis common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and...
There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.
Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no...
In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
God gave you brain so that you can give him rest.
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
As long as you try to think intelligently, you have missed the point.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm th...