quotations about common sense
Many people are hunting after uncommon sense, but they never find it a good deal. Uncommon sense is of the nature of genius, and all genius is the gift of God and can't be had, like hens' eggs, for the hunting.
JOSH BILLINGS
The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
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
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The essence of common sense is to stay in close contact with life as it is lived.
SCOTT P. SEGREST
America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense
Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other.
TOM HEEHLER
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
WILLIAM FLEMING
The Vocabulary of Philosophy
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
Prison Notebooks
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
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
attributed, Day's Collacon
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1872
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more common sense.
DON HEROLD
attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes
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
911-Common Sense Money
Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
WILL ROGERS
Will Rogers: Reflections and Observations
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Batture Case, 1812
Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden.
ANONYMOUS
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
M. M. KAYE
Shadow of the Moon
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: How to Exercise It
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Common sense is nature's gift, but reason is an art.
BEATTIE
attributed, Day's Collacon
To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Angel's Game