Common Sense Quotes

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two – common sense and perseverance.

Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Nothing is useless to the man of sense, he turns everything to account.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.

In a complex social system, the obvious, common sense solution to a problem will turn out to be wrong most of the time.