Common Sense Quotes

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

Nothing, Sense, Common

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

Nothing, Sense, Common

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain

Problem, Sense, Until

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

Words, Philosophy, Big

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian

Society, Lost, Trying

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Best, Science, Sense

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan

Sense, Far, Nonsense

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

Live, Sense, Common

Have common sense and stick to the point.
W. Somerset Maugham

Sense, Point, Common

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

Sense, Lord, Voice

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton

History, Government, Problems

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana

Good, Sense, Nonsense

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire

Dreams, True, Reality

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

Sense, Universe, Culture

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings

Done, Sense, Common

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Society, Racism, Place

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov

Two, Light, Sense

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

Science, Beautiful, Sense

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

Truth, Long, Sense

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

Science, Nothing, Sense

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague

Good, Truth, Sense

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison

Change, Nature, Men

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings

Enough, Sense, Genius

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

Best, Sense, Water

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley

Sense, Common, Consider

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Mason Cooley

Philosophy, Sense, Run

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

Good, Him, Leader

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

Science, Sense, Common

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

Two, Sense, Common

Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Sense, Common

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