Quotes about common sense

"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it."

Proverb, Persian on common sense   

"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."

Rayburn, Sam on common sense   

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on common sense   

"It makes sense that there is no sense without God."

Schaeffer, Edith on common sense   

"Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on common sense   

"Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Stein, Gertrude on common sense   

"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."

Terence on common sense   

"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring."

Thoreau, Henry David on common sense   

"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."

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"The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense."

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"In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty."

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"Good sense is the master of human life."

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"Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it."

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"Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done."

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"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."

Vico, Giambattista on common sense   

"Common sense is not so common."

Voltaire on common sense
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"Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere."

Wastholm, Peter on common sense   

"Common sense is genius in homespun."

Whitehead, Alfred North on common sense   

"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."

Whitehead, Alfred North on common sense   

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on common sense
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"Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean."

Dye, James on common sense   

"There is no school of philosphy that approaches ordinary common sense."

Michael Lipsey on common sense   

"Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head."

Liccione, Anthony on common sense