“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” — Gertrude Stein, “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb,” Yale Poetry Review (December 1947)
Tag: common sense
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“Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense.” — David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground
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“The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change—and we all instinctively avoid it, and object to the passage of time, and would rather have none of it.” — E. B. White, “The Ring of Time,” The New Yorker (1956-03-22)
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“The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is—absurd.” — Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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“A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” — Clive James, The Crystal Bucket
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“Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other.” — Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
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“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.” — An Wang, Lessons : An Autobiography
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“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
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“Women have a good deal more sober sense than men. But men would be just as sensible if there were no women.” — H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major
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“Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine, Common Sense