I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
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 whil...
Women and wine rid a man of his common sense.
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
Seek advice but use your own common sense.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
What is common sense isn't common practice.
Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is ...
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have c...
The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defec...
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nati...
People think common sense is common - but it's not.
common sense is embedded in common things
Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in...
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
