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  • The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)
  • Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

    "Discourse on the Method". Treatise by René Descartes, Pt. 1, 1637.
  • There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
  • I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered.

    Art   Simple   Government  
    Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.9, Library of America
  • Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

  • Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

    "Barney Frank Comes Home to the Facts". Article by Larry Kudlow, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 21, 2010.
  • No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

    "The last word on Prudence" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 1999.
  • Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)
  • It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

  • Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and I promise I will relent. But there is no common sense at all in the prohibition of walking.

  • I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

  • Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

  • Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

    Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin
  • You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

    Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr
  • Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

  • Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

    William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
  • These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.

    Donald Ervin Knuth (1973). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
  • Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

    "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Martin Amis' lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iop.harvard.edu. January 30, 1997.
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