Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893) quotes
"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
Common sense is the best sense I know of.
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."