Common Sense Quotes

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

"When unsure how to solve a problem,
use your common sense."
Catherine Pulsifer

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

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