WcP.Common.Sense's quotes

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

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

- Rene Descartes

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Choose only one master - Nature."
~ Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

"True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A prudent question is one half of wisdom."
- Francis Bacon Sr. (English Philosopher)

"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
- Aesop (Ancient Greek fabulist)

"No better relation than a prudent and faithful Friend."
- Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor)

"A man in debt is so far a slave." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt." - Benjamin Franklin

"I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again; your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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