(457 quotes found)
“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
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
Buddha
“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius”
“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
Thomas Alva Edison