Common Sense(Related Subjects: Intelligence)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed) Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. Don Wood The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless" Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) [Common sense] is the best sense I know of. Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875 Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841 If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. Tom Stoppard (1937 - )