Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Interpretation
Common sense is shaped by our experiences and biases formed before adulthood.
This quote by Albert Einstein suggests that what we often refer to as 'common sense' is largely influenced by the preconceptions and biases we accumulate during our formative years. These preconceived notions can limit our ability to think critically and independently, as they are shaped by societal norms and personal experiences rather than objective reasoning.
In practice
During a discussion on decision-making in a leadership seminar.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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