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"The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire

"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
- Rayburn, Sam

"Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense."
- Stein, Gertrude

"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
- Da Vinci, Leonardo

"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense ? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring."
- Thoreau, Henry David

"Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited."
- Santayana, George

"Common sense is calculation applied to life."
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Einstein, Albert

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"The best prophet is common sense, our native wit."
- Euripides

"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

"Common Sense is very uncommon."
- Greeley, Horace

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
- Huxley, Thomas H.

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
- Huxley, Thomas H.

"Common Sense is in medicine the master workman."
- Latham, Peter

" That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!"
- Meredith, George

"Common sense hides shame."
- Proverb, Gaelic

"Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
- Shaw, Henry Wheeler

"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."
- Unknown, Source

"The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense is genius in homespun."
- Whitehead, Alfred North

"There is no school of philosphy that approaches ordinary common sense."
- Michael Lipsey

"There is no school of philosophy that approaches ordinary common sense."
- Lipsey, Michael

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
- Hugo, Victor

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
- Beecher, Henry Ward

"Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
- Howe, Edgar Watson

"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it."
- Proverb, Persian

"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
- Terence

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."
- Rowland, Helen

"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
- Deland, Margaret

"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."
- Wang, An

"He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it."
- Proverb

"In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty."
- Unknown, Source

"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
- Davies, Robertson

"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
- Santayana, George

"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."
- Auvil, Myrtle

"Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done."
- Unknown, Source

"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult."
- Maugham, W. Somerset

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
- Edison, Thomas A.

" A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
- Shaw, George Bernard

"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
- Butler, Samuel

"My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."
- Hepburn, Katharine

"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence."
- Brown, Norman O.

"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
- Vico, Giambattista

"Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
- Huxley, Thomas H.

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Billings, Josh

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
- Descartes, Rene

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

"Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature."
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor."
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

"The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."
- Lowell, James Russell

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something."
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
- Nabokov, Vladimir

"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."
- Addison, Joseph

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
- Wilde, Oscar

"The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch."
- Byron, Lord

"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization."
- Lucan, F. L.

"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."
- Buddha

"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."
- Maugham, W. Somerset

"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."

- Dillard, Annie