Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Common Sense Quotes
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would have been killed in body.
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
And without humor there can be no common sense. Humorless people aren’t just the people that don’t laugh at jokes; I mean they can’t be trusted with anything. I don’t know how they get across the road without getting knocked over, it seems to me such a basic human quality, so it’s important to assert […]
Common sense is as rare as genius, – is the basis of genius.
When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans – common sense.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
