Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world. (Russell Jacoby)

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

Russell Jacoby

Related topics

common frank sense society world

Related quotes

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. View quote
William Ralph Inge
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. View quote
Victor Hugo
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. View quote
Gertrude Stein