Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
What we wish, that we readily believe.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
The validity of doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
