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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Genius
Sense
Enough
Instinct
Common
Common Sense
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence
Clever
Sense
Common
Grand
Common Sense
Thing
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Man
Complicated
Rest
Sense
Thinking
Our
Striving
Spirit
Insofar
Points
Observation
He
Most
Well
Scientific
Pillars
Departure
Common
Common Sense
Workings
Fundamental
Conscious
Two
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
Beautiful
Science
Ugly
Sense
Fact
Common
Where
Common Sense
Organized
Theory
Many
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
Best
Science
Sense
Logic
Observation
Merciless
Simply
Fallacy
Accurate
Common
Common Sense
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.
Andrew Weil
Health
Sometimes
Sense
Complex
Hazardous
Bottom
Bottom Line
Line
Human
Common
Human Body
Subtle
Common Sense
Us
Body
Your
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
Wisdom
Age
Sense
Common
Common Sense
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann
Good
Business
Genius
Grace
Leader
Situation
Sense
Good Leader
Him
Without
Deal
Leave
Behind
Common
Which
Common Sense
Successfully
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.
Vincent Bugliosi
Life
Intelligence
Seen
Sense
Virtually
Way
Correlation
One Thing
Seem
Between
Over
Common
Common Sense
Again
Translate
Thing
My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.
John Kasich
People
Sense
Tell
Restore
About
Economic
Economic Growth
Like
Provide
Campaigns
Behind
Common
Anybody
Movement
Common Sense
Really
Elections
Growth
Things
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
Ian Dunbar
Me
Animal
School
Animals
Met
Before
Sense
Farm
Earned
Touch
He
Smartest
Since
Came
Up
Privilege
Person
Quit
Taught
Common
Grew
Common Sense
Grandfather
Ever
Right
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Giambattista Vico
Class
Reflection
Judgment
Nation
Sense
Entire
Shared
Without
Human
Common
Common Sense
Race
Human Race
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz
Best
Sense
Best Part
Part
Blonde
Common
Being
Common Sense
Momentary
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
Education
Wisdom
Knowledge
Sense
Someone
Had
He
Because
Does
Educated
Just
Common
Just Because
Formal
Formal Education
Common Sense
Mean
Elite
Preserve
Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn't require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live.
Harley Pasternak
Life
Change
Yourself
Healthy
Sense
Radical
Live
Way
Significant
Eat
About
Fact
Through
Attained
Lifestyle
Overall
Healthy Lifestyle
Diet
Move
Common
In Fact
Common Sense
Decisions
Require
Creating
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland
Spiritual
Sense
Dissipation
Virtue
Self-Sacrifice
Denies
Common
Which
Common Sense
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
Caitlin Rose
Life
Music
Family
Knowledge
You
Business
People
Job
Pretending
Looking
Sense
Music Business
Spend
Later
Thousands
Some
Seems
Like
Until
Learn
Nashville
Dollars
Up
Semester
Trying
Common
Common Sense
While
Realize
Means
Intern
Growing
Growing Up
Row
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. 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.
Anthony Burgess
Needs
Mistake
Try
Country
Sense
Unless
Frankly
Temper
Admit
Above
Something
Take
Fails
Demands
Another
Method
Persistent
Common
Experimentation
Common Sense
Bold
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
Sense
Other
Given
Judges
Common
Senses
Which
Common Sense
Things
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Noam Chomsky
Death
People
Sense
Develop
Concealment
Frighten
Frightened
Common
Common Sense
Means
Aggression
Things
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
Amy Klobuchar
Good
Me
Political
Compassion
Will
Sense
Neighbors
Carry
Both
Arena
Political Arena
His
Common
Common Sense
Public
Should
Grounding
Servant
Her
My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.
Jurgen Klopp
Life
Sense
Understand
Common
Biggest
Common Sense
Skill
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Isabel Allende
Good
People
Sense
Nice
Characters
Only
Make
Spouses
Common
Common Sense
Former
Interesting
Interesting Characters
Nice People
I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense.
Tarana Burke
Culture
Result
Single
Sense
Every
Think
Consequences
Sexual
Case
Someone
Vary
Fired
Instance
Dealt
Shift
Just
Common
Being
Common Sense
Should
Harassment
Basic
Need
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
Sense
Voice
Shared
Lord
Common
Which
Common Sense
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
David Mamet
Science
Trust
Sometimes
Fly
Sense
Earth
Bent
Those
Dreamt
More
Both
Never
Wrong
Poker
Academic
Perhaps
Learns
Than
Heaven
Common
Expert
Common Sense
Should
Things
Player
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