Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
Germaine Greer

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Susan Sontag

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
Hillary Clinton

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Jonas Salk

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
Norman Rockwell

No sense makes sense.
Charles Manson