Common Sense Quotes

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

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.

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.

One can never do without straightforward common sense in matters great as well as small.

Even a fish wouldn’t get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.