Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

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

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Marcus Garvey

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

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

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plutarch

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

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

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Alan Watts

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw