"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

Common sense, Custom, Facts, Myth

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Common sense, Philosophy

"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

Common sense, May, Sound

"Have common sense and stick to the point."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Common sense,

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Common sense, Nothing

"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

David Deutsch, American Scientist

Common sense, Theories

"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

Common sense,

"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

Common sense, Result, Skill, Want

"Common sense often makes good law."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

Common sense, Law

"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

Charles D. Broad, British Philosopher

Common sense,

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"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

Men

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

Money

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

Time

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

Mother

"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

Difference

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

Travel

"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

"Have common sense and stick to the point."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."

"Common sense often makes good law."

"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."

"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."

"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."