Common Sense Quotes

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.

John Berger

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.

Peter Latham

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

Samuel Butler

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Proverb

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 gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

Raymond Chandler

When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

Michael Isenberg

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Peter Wastholm

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Euripides

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

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

Proverb

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rene Descartes

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

Gertrude Stein, Reflection on th

Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.

George Gallup

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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

Josh Billings