Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas Huxley

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover

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

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
Sarah Palin

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Temple Grandin

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll