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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.


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RENE DESCARTES Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-en...
RENE DESCARTES Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied wit...
RENE DESCARTES Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed w...
RENE DESCARTES Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so...
RENE DESCARTES There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please...
RENE DESCARTES Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can
HENRY FORD There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
JOHANN VON GOETHE One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
THOMAS PAINE Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
MARK VAN DOREN Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
DAVID DEUTSCH For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him ...
CRISS JAMI Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
AN WANG Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eig...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what o...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
BARON D'HOLBACH Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
VOLTAIRE What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not.
UNKNOWN There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so
GERMAN PROVERB A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ...
J.J. BOWLERS The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA Nothing is more common than unsuccessful talented men
SUNDAY ADELAJA Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplica...
HENRY VILLARD Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he ha...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
BRYANT H. MCGILL No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
BRYANT MCGILL He has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Bill has a great way of communicating. No one believes more in this than he does. No one wants to su...
JOSH GOTTHEIMER A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
MARK TWAIN A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own per...
ANONYMOUS A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
GRANVILLE HICKS A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records mor...
EDWARD GORDON CRAIG He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C.S. LEWIS I'm hoping he doesn't embarrass himself and his family in this city any more than he has already don...
JERRY GREEN No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
JOSH BILLINGS A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserabl...
JOHN STUART MILL Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more ri...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one t...
ASHWIN SANGHI Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We don't want him to get any more injured than he already is.
DAN WINZENRIED For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
PETER HEDGES I have no reason to believe anything other than that he has now told everything he thinks he can fro...
LEIF SILBERSKY Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
JOHANN G. SEUME There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
ADRIANA TRIGIANI No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
ADAM SMITH No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
ADAM SMITH Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -...
HARRY S TRUMAN For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
OSCAR WILDE For he who lives more lives than one - More deaths than one must die
OSCAR WILDE He who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die
OSCAR WILDE No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.
SOURCE UNKNOWN He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his en...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see i...
MILAN KUNDERA A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
ANONYMOUS He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
WILLIAM PENN A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own...
JOHN STUART MILL Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and ...
SIR WILLIAM DRAPER For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
OSCAR WILDE What I get more than anything [from fans] is you've got to stick it out. He needs you.
JENNIFER MORRISON That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she...
TAHEREH MAFI One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to oth...
DUDLEY NORTH I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
DANIEL OKRENT He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it....
DAVE MAGUIRE When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.
MARTY RUBIN Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe...
OCTAVIO PAZ If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectaria...
EMILE DURKHEIM Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and o...
JAN HUS Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convi...
RICARDO PIGLIA It's very safe in the academic community; no one thinks anything of it. But to some extent there's m...
ELAYNE RAPPING By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
HORACE WALPOLE Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...
KARL LAGERFELD War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...
JOHN STUART MILL Antonio has been more dedicated this camp than I've ever seen him. The scary part is Antonio is real...
BUDDY MCGIRT God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
SAINT AUGUSTINE There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no o...
MAXIM GORKY Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL He's got more speed than you think he has, and he's more physical than you think.
BRIAN CROSS That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks ch...
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