Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
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 genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
Steven Patrick Morrissey
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai Lama
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
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
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
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
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