Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.
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!
() See Common sense, under Sense.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Application of common sense is Intelligence
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believ...
People regard art too highly, and history not enough
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus...
In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.
A reader Is a writer.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
It takes centuries for sense to become common
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
Everyone deserves what they choose to tolerate.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way...
Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.