(1185 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 in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense”
“Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“Nowadays 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
