Quotes About Common Sense

 

Common Sense Quotes 

 Do you know who said, “Common sense is not so common?” If not here it is and others I thought interesting to share. 

 

Common sense is not so common. Voltaire

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas A. Edison

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know. Bob Marley

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette

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

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. Coretta Scott King

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense. Hack Wilson

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. An Wang

Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego. Henry Sy

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

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. Joan Crawford

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes. Hozier

The Empowering Law Enforcement Act is about common sense. Tommy Tuberville

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others. Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. Joyce Meyer

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. Franz Liszt

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. William Hague

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Leonardo da Vinci

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. Alva Myrdal

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

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

Philosophy is common sense with big words. James Madison

Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas

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

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

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright

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~DaMarie

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