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Common Sense

Definition: Good sense and sound judgment in practical matters.
Number of Quotes: 8

The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common.
Gerard M. Blair

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
John Mortimer

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of.
Philip Stanhope

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
Ai Weiwei

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover, when it is too late, that the only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

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