Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.
Common Sense Quotes
In a complex social system, the obvious, common sense solution to a problem will turn out to be wrong most of the time.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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.
Common sense is very uncommon.
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.
Experience join’d with common sense, to mortals is a providence.
A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold […]
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.