Motivational Quotes

Common sense

Common sense hides shame.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Common sense

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

Proverb

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

Isenberg, Michael

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

Hugo, Victor

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Rayburn, Sam

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

Schaeffer, Edith

Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.

Latham, Peter

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 best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Euripides

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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.

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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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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

Meredith, George

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Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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 the best sense I know of.

Lord Chesterfield

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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Vico, Giambattista

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Common sense hides shame.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Albert Einstein

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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Descartes, Rene

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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.

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

Terence

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

Orwell, George

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

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Good sense is the master of human life.

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

Matthew Arnold

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood

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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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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

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

Tom Stoppard

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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