Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Common Sense Quotes
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
When religion comes in at the door common sense goes out at the window.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas – of multitudes of life-learned rules an exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
The jeremiad begins by holding up communal norms rooted in the scriptures. Then it condemns the sorry state of the community. And finally it works up to a prophetic dream of future glory – even the Second Coming of Jesus. In this way, the American jeremiad came to terms with the inexorable progress of progress. […]
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
The door to wisdom swings on hinges of common sense and uncommon thoughts.
The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.
