In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
Common Sense Quotes
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
When the philosopher’s argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone 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.
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would have been killed in body.
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
And without humor there can be no common sense. Humorless people aren’t just the people that don’t laugh at jokes; I mean they can’t be trusted with anything. I don’t know how they get across the road without getting knocked over, it seems to me such a basic human quality, so it’s important to assert […]
