Quote: Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Quote: Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Quote: The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.
Author: John Berger 1926-, British Actor, Critic
Quote: Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.
Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author
Quote: Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor
Quote: Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Author: Rene Descartes 1596-1650, French Philosopher, Scientist
Quote: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
Author: George Gallup 1901-1984, American Public Opinion Expert
Quote: Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Common Sense is very uncommon.
Author: Horace Greeley 1811-1872, American Newspaper Editor
Quote: My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer
Quote: Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator
Quote: Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator
Quote: When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
Author: Michael Isenberg
Quote: A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Author: Charles Kingsley 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman
Quote: Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
Author: Peter Latham
Quote: That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Quote: When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
Author: F. L. Lucan 39-65, Roman Epic Poet
Quote: Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Author: George Meredith 1828-1909, British Author
Quote: To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
Author: Proverb
Quote: No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Author: Ashanti Proverb Sayings of Ashanti Origin
Quote: Common sense hides shame.
Author: Gaelic Proverb Sayings of Gaelic Origin
Quote: One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin
Quote: If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
Author: Sam Rayburn 1882-1961, American Representative
Quote: 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.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA
Quote: It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
Author: Edith Schaeffer
Quote: Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885, American Humorist
Quote: Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Author: Gertrude Stein 1874-1946, American Author
Quote: What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: 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.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
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Quote: Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Good sense is the master of human life.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Author: Giambattista Vico 1688-1744, Italian Philosopher, Historian
Quote: Common sense is not so common.
Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.
Author: Peter Wastholm
Quote: Common sense is genius in homespun.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher
Quote: Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher
Quote: 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.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit