Common Sense Quotes

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two – common sense and perseverance.

Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Nothing is useless to the man of sense, he turns everything to account.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.

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.