quotations about common sense
Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden.
ANONYMOUS
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 a kind of intuitive judgment that some men possess, enabling them to give good advice upon most matters. It is gained by close observation, which stores the mind with a stock of useful knowledge, and the happy tact of using the same as opportunities arise.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.
JACQUES MARITAIN
An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy
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
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
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
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
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Common sense is as rare as genius--is the basis of genius.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Experience," Essays
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more common sense.
DON HEROLD
attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes
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
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 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
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Letters and Social Aims
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 the folklore of philosophy.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
Prison Notebooks
Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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