Common Sense - Quotes

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it – unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Unknown

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense dancing. - William James

Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other. - Tom Heehler

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. - William Somerset Maugham

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden. - Unknown

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. - William Fleming 

Common sense is as rare as genius. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Victor Hugo

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. - Josh Billings

Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire

Common sense is not something rigid and immobile, but is continually transforming itself, enriching itself with scientific ideas and with philosophical opinions which have entered ordinary life. - Antonio Gramsci

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne. - James Vila Blake

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. - René Descartes

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Josh Billings

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. - Tryon Edwards

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they would not know what to believe without their common sense. - Unknown

Common sense may be compared to a young plant: it needs careful training and perpetual airing, to keep it in good health and cause it to blossom and bear fruit. - Mrs. S. Wesley

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. - M. M. Kaye

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Victor Hugo

Common Sense – that genius of mankind, which, when properly directed is the one attribute that will carry man and his kind successfully through the perplexities of life. - Yoritomo Tashi

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Emotion makes the world go round, but common sense keeps it from going too fast. - Unknown

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change. - Alexander Pope

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense, too, he is not far from genius. - Henry ward Beecher 

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. - Sam Rayburn

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. - Robert Ingersoll

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. - E. A. Bucchianeri

Knowledge counts but common sense matters. - Louanne Johnson

 

Just because something is common sense doesn't mean it's common practice. - Unknown

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. - Myrtle Auvil

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. - Rene Descartes

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. - Persian Proverb

Remember. Just because you went to college doesn’t make you smarter than anyone else. Common sense doesn’t come with a degree. - Unknown

The essence of common sense is to stay in close contact with life as it is lived. - Scott P. Segrest

The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. - Matthew Arnold

The mind is very persuasive and it helps us make the best and worst decisions based on individual circumstances. Common sense is the counter-balance. - Keith Ambersley

The mind of man has no defence to equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, if you would be happy as well as wise. - Unknown

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense. - Evan Esar

The one thing you cannot teach a person is common sense. - Unknown

The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense. - Kathryn Smith

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity. - Evan Esar

To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. - Roland Barthes

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year. - Edwin H. Land

When you stop to think about it, common sense is really special – not common. - Unknown

Whenever a man boasts much about (his common sense), you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon. - Henry Thomas Buckle