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Quotes about Common Sense

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
- Tom Stoppard, British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein, US author in France (1874 - 1946)

CP Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
- Lord Chesterfield, (1694 - 1773)

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Matthew Arnold, English critic & poet (1822 - 1888)

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
- Don Wood