Common Sense Quotes
Common Sense Quotes
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Ashanti Proverb
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha
When unsure how to solve a problem, use your common sense.
Catherine Pulsifer
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense; no one thinks he needs more of it than he already had.
Descartes
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Common sense hides shame.
Gaelic Proverb
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Fr_d_ric Amiel
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.
Josh Billings
Common sense is the ability to see things as they are without prejudice and do things as they ought to be done without influence of any kind.
Josh Billings
Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Proverb
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
Proverb
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Proverb
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is strengthened by joy.
Rebbe Nachman Of Breslov
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
Thomas Jefferson
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
W. Somerset Maugham
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James