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

Common sense, Philosophy

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

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"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

"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

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

David Deutsch, American Scientist

Common sense, Theories

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Common sense, Nothing

"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,

"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,

"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

"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

Common sense, Water

"Have common sense and stick to the point."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Common sense,

"Common sense often makes good law."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

Common sense, Law

Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

Theology

"A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him."

Destiny

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Interest

"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

Grave

"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

Fault

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

Pain

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

Disappointment

"It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."

Education

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

Success

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Society