A Quote by Rene Descartes

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

Rene Descartes

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Rene Descartes
French - Mathematician
March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Rene Descartes

Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

Ivo Andric

The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

E. B. White

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

David Deutsch

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

David Deutsch

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. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

Rene Descartes

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Thomas Chalmers

There's nothing more unforgivable than someone who thinks he knows more about yourself than you do.

Helen Nielsen

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

William Hazlitt

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Stephen Miller did one thing: He simply recited common sense. This is a common sense immigration bill. If there was ever a piece of common sense legislation, this is it. In this case, what Stephen Miller did was nothing more than common sense, and yet it was interpreted - it went right over their heads, the White House press corps, not just Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush. It went over all of their heads because they didn't understand what he was talking about, either because of the fog of hatred they have for Donald Trump and his administration, or they are just ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Adriana Trigiani

There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Sheri L. Dew

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