Common Sense Sayings & Quotes
These common sense sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. - Edward W. Howe
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. - Thomas Jefferson
Common sense is the best sense I know of. - Lord Chesterfield
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
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
Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate needs. Yet, when we think about it, our common sense tells us that our most inspired, creative acts are deeply tied to our need to love and that, when we lack love, we find it difficult to work creatively; that work without love is dead, mechanical, sheer competence without vitality, that love without work grows boring, monotonous, lacks depth and passion. - Marta Zahaykevich
Have common sense and stick to the point. - William Somerset Maugham
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. - Samuel Butler
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
The most practical things in the world are common sense and common humanity. - Lady Nancy Astor
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. - Henry Louis Mencken
Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. - Leonardo Da Vinci
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
Common sense is the genius of humanity. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The question of common sense, 'What is it good for?' would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. - James Russell Lowell
Friendless: Having no favours to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
High politic is only common sense applied to great things. - Napoleon Bonaparte
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is more fairly distributed that common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than one already has! - Rene Descartes
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up. - Raymond Thornton Chandler
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. 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. - Anthony Burgess
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. - Thomas Jefferson