Related:

• Shave daily with Occam's razor.
• Hanlon's Razor prov. A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
  The derivation of the Hanlon eponym is not definitely known, but a very similar remark ("You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity....
• Mothers of large families (who claim to common sense) Will find a Tiger will repay the trouble and expense.
  -- Hilaire Belloc, "The Tige...
• Hypotheses are not to be multiplied without necessity. -- Occam's Razo
• Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
  ) -- William of Occam, Occam's Razo...
• Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate. (Multiplicity is not to be asserted when it is unnecessary.
  ) -- William of Occam [Occam's Razor]...
• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the later only as a veteran may differ from a raw recrui
  and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club....