“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense…”
David Deutsch book The Fabric of Reality
The Fabric of Reality (1997)
“No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.”
"Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy," http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08302008.html CounterPunch (August 30 -31, 2008).
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“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
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Sarah Palin (1964) American politician
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Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 6-7
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According to The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 91 ISBN 0312340044 , the cover of a trade magazine once credited this observation to Churchill, but it dates back well into the nineteenth century, and has been variously attributed to Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, w:Theodore Roosevelt, w:Thomas Jefferson, w:Will Rogers and Lord Palmerston, among others. One documented use in Social Silhouettes (1906) by George William Erskine Russell, p. 218 wherein a character attributes the saying to Lord Palmerston.
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