Common Sense Quotes
"When unsure how to solve a problem, use your common sense."


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

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
William James

"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
Josh Billings

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

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense; no one thinks he needs more of it than he already had."
Descartes

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

"Seek advice but use your own common sense."
Yiddish Proverb

"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
Christine Collange



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

"No one tests the depth of a river with both feet."
Ashanti Proverb

"The real truth is that each one of us gives events power by simply reacting to them. Some of these reactions call for a series of negative emotions and it is the release of negative emotions that continue to be compounded if we let them overtake common sense and practicality."
Byron Pulsifer, To Live More

"If the grass is greener on the other side it’s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master."
Earl Nightingale

"Common sense if of paramount importance in business and customer service."
Author Unknown

"Never doubt your own intelligence and common sense. When your inner voice says, 'watch out', learn to take heed."
Anita Foley, from If Only You'd Listen to Your Own Intuition

"I don't know why they call it common sense, because it's not so common."
Ron Belrose

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are,
first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas Edison

"Sometimes we forget our common sense and over complicated matters."
Catherine Pulsifer



"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
Peter Latham

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

"Proverbs speak to a simple truth or are often considered common sense, but are expressed usually in a one line sentence."
Proverbs

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Robert Green Ingersoll

"On the other hand, showing the confidence to challenge decisions based on our own common sense can lead to more thoughtful decisions. Don't be afraid to speak up, voice your thoughts in a constructive and positive manner."
Catherine Pulsifer, Showing Common Sense

"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"To me, it is a common sense activity as much a part of health as it is a part of a healthy life to keep the physical body moving."
Byron Pulsifer, To Do It Is Common Sense




"Common sense is
very uncommon."
Horace Greeley




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




"Common sense in
an uncommon degree
is what the world calls
wisdom."
Samuel Coleridge




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




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

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