Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers

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

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

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Hubert H. Humphrey

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Rick Warren

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer