If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.
Common Sense Quotes
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.
A world in which men know that most of what they know is probably untrue cannot be dignified with the name of a sceptical world; it is simply an impotent and abject world, not attacking anything, but accepting everything while trusting nothing; accepting even its own incapacity to attack; accepting its own lack of authority […]
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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.
