Memorable Common Sense Quotes

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"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every human being is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
François de La Rochefoucauld
"It is a great advantage to a writer to have a good sense of common sense."
William Dean Howells
"Common sense is the ability to think things through logically and come to the correct conclusion."
J. K. Rowling
"Common sense is the antidote to ignorance."
Unknown
"A lack of common sense is an affliction."
Susan Cain
"The hallmark of a truly great mind is the degree to which it reflects common sense."
Albert Einstein
"If you have common sense, you have all the qualities you need to succeed in life."
Maya Angelou
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"Common sense is the most potent religion."
Thomas Jefferson
"Much of what we call common sense is not common; it's learned behavior."
Robert Fulghum
"Common sense is not common practice."
Unknown
"Sometimes, the most common sense approach is to throw common sense out the window."
David Dunning
"There are few things more dangerous than common sense in the hands of a foolish person."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Common sense is the key to wisdom and understanding."
Unknown
"One of the most serious mistakes is not to take a chance."
Shirley Hufstedler
"Common sense is the most essential form of intelligence."
Unknown
"Common sense may not be so common in the world, but it is always available for those who seek it."
Unknown
"Good sense is the master of the younger mind."
Aesop
"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness, and common sense often proves an illusion."
Seneca
"An ounce of common sense can be worth a ton of academic knowledge."
Anonymous
"Common sense and the pursuit of knowledge are not at odds; they are allies in the quest for understanding."
Unknown
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Winston Churchill
"Practical wisdom is the most important thing in life; all the rest is but mere talk."
Seneca
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
Rene Descartes
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
Franklin P. Adams
"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."
Winston Churchill
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
Thomas A. Edison
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
Dr. Seuss
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
Henry Ford
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"It's not that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
Woodrow Wilson
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"Common sense is the most evenly distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
René Descartes
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Don't confuse this with common sense, people have none."
James M. Barrie
"Common sense often makes good law."
William O. Douglas
"To think is to differ."
Clarence D. Standish
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
Francis Bacon
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Benjamin Franklin
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
Albert Einstein
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"Common sense is the most unusually named thing in the world."
George Orwell
"Too often, common sense is not a feature of our dealings with one another."
Stephen Kinzer
"Common sense is the foundation of all accurate judgment."
George Bernard Shaw
"One cannot be sensible and be free. One cannot be sensible and be wise. One cannot be sensible and be honest."
José Ortega y Gasset
"It's not what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know that ain't so."
Will Rogers
"Common sense is the best distributer of common virtues."
James A. Garfield
"You cannot underestimate the amount of common sense required to hold that you know nothing."
Robert H. thouless
"Common sense is the best sense."
N.C. Wyeth
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
Albert Einstein
"Common sense is like weather. It is often cloudy, sometimes rainy, and rarely perfect."
Anonymous
"Common sense is the compass of life."
George Washington
"A little common sense could prevent a lot of trouble."
Anonymous
"Don’t confuse common sense with common practice."
Anonymous
"The best way to keep people's attention is to have a firm grip on common sense."
Anonymous
"With common sense and experience, we can achieve greatness."
Anonymous
"Common sense may not be so common, but it is necessary for survival."
Anonymous
"Common sense is the art of seeing things as they are."
Anonymous
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked."
Mark Twain
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
Werner Heisenberg
"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other."
Benjamin Franklin
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
Stephen Hawking
"The ability to find beauty in the smallest things is the gift of common sense."
Kiran Bedi
"It is a pity that common sense is not so common."
Molière
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
George Bernard Shaw
"I think we ought to have a little more confidence in common sense."
Winston Churchill
"Common sense may not be so common, but it is always all around us, waiting to be found."
David Hume
"Common sense tells us that our rulers can only be righteous when they are accountable."
Evelyn Waugh
"Common sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for every one is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
René Descartes
"To me, common sense is not a common practice."
Virginia Woolf
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
Cicero
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The trouble with common sense is that it is not very common."
Franklin P. Adams
"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 is the most important thing in the world."
Thomas Paine
"Common sense is not so common, especially when dealing with public issues."
George Washington
"Without common sense, high intelligence is useless."
Henry Ford
"Common sense is the foundation of all true wisdom."
Daniel Kahneman
"The greatest knowledge is to know that you know nothing, which is higher than common sense."
Socrates
"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they should be."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Common sense is an uncommon degree of knowing."
Thomas Edison
"We write not only to tell our own truths, but also to express a common sense of humanity."
Maya Angelou
"The power of common sense is sharper than a sword."
Johnny Depp
"You can't lose with common sense."
Barack Obama
"It takes a lot of common sense to get it right."
Margaret Thatcher
"Common sense is the most needed quality for a society to thrive."
Nelson Mandela
"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire
"The problem with common sense is that it is not so common."
Mark Twain
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Albert Einstein
"The greatest genius is one who is least like himself."
Pablo Picasso
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their ideas closer together."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Common sense often makes bad law."
Clarence Darrow
"Common sense is the basis of all morality and all legislation."
Abraham Lincoln
"A great man is always willing to be little."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Common sense is the most generally shared quality among all people who have it."
Anonymous
"I think the government has a responsibility to explain to citizens the importance of the common good and common sense."
John F. Kennedy
"Common sense tells us that we cannot be equal in anything until we are equal in common sense."
Thomas Jefferson
"One who knows how to think will be a synthesis of common sense and hard work."
Confucius
"What we need is more sense than common sense."
Anonymous
"Everyone has a right to make their own mistakes; that's common sense."
Anonymous
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
David Foster Wallace
"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him."
Anonymous
"Common sense is the art of stepping outside the hall of knowledge and looking back in with sober eyes."
Anonymous
"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."
Anonymous
"Good sense is both the sign and the source of genuine culture."
Henri Poincaré
"Common sense is the foundation of all human behavior."
Aristotle
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James
"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
Anonymous
"Using common sense as a guide can help you navigate the complexity of the world."
Anonymous
"The essence of wisdom is adapting to the circumstances at hand, using all available forms of common sense."
Anonymous
"It is a sign of a girl who has no common sense to follow her heart in everything."
Marilyn Monroe
"Being a person who possesses greater common sense helps to navigate through life calmly and wisely."
Anonymous
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