Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.
Zack W. VanTags: life common-sense life-and-living intelectual
By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.
Lev GrossmanTags: magic common-sense
The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.
L.M. FieldsTags: inspirational truth logic common-sense
Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.
David WeberTags: common-sense power-generation
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Lin YutangTags: reason philosophy logic common-sense chinese-philosophy
I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored
Tushar RahejaTags: common-sense
Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.
Anthony LiccioneTags: wisdom common-sense
People regard art too highly, and history not enough
John IrvingTags: art history common-sense
If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: common-sense
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
Wazim ShawTags: intelligence inspiration genius motivation common-sense
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