Common Sense Quotes. This is a collection of quotes on the subject of common sense including all the best common sense quotes. The subject of common sense has been quoted for centuries by some of the most famous authors, philosophers, actors, politicians, and founding fathers.
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Common Sense Quotes
“Philosophy is common sense with big words.” – James Madison
“Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin
“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 and education are highly compatible; in fact neither is worth much without the other.” – Donald G. Smith
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Mark Twain
“Science is not a substitute for common sense but an extension of it.” – Willard Orman Quine
“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge. It’s common sense.” – Ronald Reagan
UNIVERSALLY HELD BELIEF: The sun rises in the East
FACT: The sun neither rises nor sets. The earth rotates around the sun.
MORAL: Popular beliefs kill common sense.
“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.” – Thomas Huxley
“Do not imagine that mathematics is in conflict with common sense. It is the beauty of common sense.” – William Thomson
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Many sophisticated intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.” – Joyce Meyer
“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 common sense.” – Buddha
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world. Everybody thinks they have so much of it that even the people hardest to convince in everything else agree they don’t need any more of it than they already have.” – René Descartes
“What I’m fighting for is common sense.” – Jim Abbott
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” – Thomas Paine
“The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to grow bored of everything, became tired of common sense and civilization.” – F.L. Lucan
“I’m learning slowly you can’t argue with everybody. Common sense isn’t a common place.” – Malanda
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas Edison
“There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.” – Idries Shah
“Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.” – Travis Bradberry
“Let me assure you that the humorless as a bunch don’t just know what’s funny, they don’t know what’s serious. They have no common sense, either and shouldn’t be trusted with anything.” – Martin Amis
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” – Thomas Paine
“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”– Julian Casablancas
“How many geniuses does it take to change a light bulb? Fifty. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say I could have done that!” – Unknown
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
“Never give up—never, never, ever, if it does not contradict to honor and common sense.” – Winston Churchill
This article is from the Book On Common Sense by Christopher Scott. Christopher Scott is the voice of common sense and host of the Christopher Scott Show Talk Radio Podcast.
