Common Sense Quotes

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

Age, Sense, Common

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Humor, Moving, Different

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai Lama

Today, Together, Different

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, Die, Sense

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

Education, Sense, Times

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Sense, Genius

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, Sense, Common

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Nothing, Sense

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

Good, Great, Courage

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

Try, Sense, Another

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

Good, Live, End

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

Good, Great, Courage

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Hate, Everything, Honesty

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

Long, Sense, Lose

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

Work, Great, Hard

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom, Sense, Common

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

Humanity, Sense, Genius

Common Sense Quote

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown

Success, Great, Sense

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

Religion, Nothing, Sense

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

Love, Sense, Common

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

Strength, Greatest, Sense

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken

Sports, Hate, Person

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Sense, Common

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

Education, Sense, Result

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher

Philosophy, Sense, Next

Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo

Sense, Genius, Common

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

Sense, Common, Senses

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes

Sense, Common, Matters

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Sense, Genius, Common

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