Motivational Quotes

Common sense

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Common sense

Common sense hides shame.

Proverb, Gaelic

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand--like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Hepburn, Katharine

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard

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.

Lucan, F. L.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Lincoln, Abraham

The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.

Gallup, George

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

Isenberg, Michael

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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.

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Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Fielding, Henry

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[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.

Lord Chesterfield

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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Good sense is the master of human life.

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Euripides

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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Terence

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In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.

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To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

Orwell, George

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He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.

Proverb

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

Rayburn, Sam

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Wastholm, Peter

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

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Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood

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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.

Chandler, Raymond

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

Meredith, George

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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.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Stein, Gertrude

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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

Schaeffer, Edith

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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Butler, Samuel

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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.

Lowell, James Russell

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Kingsley, Charles

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Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Common Sense is very uncommon.

Greeley, Horace

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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.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo