1. When unsure how to solve a problem, use your common sense. Catherine Pulsifer
   Problem
2. And it is still true, no matter how old you are – when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
   Inspirational Quotes



3. I am not saying that being educated is of no value, what I am saying is that many times experience brings common sense which is something that just reading a book or studying does not give you. Catherine Pulsifer, Showing Common Sense
   Experience
4. Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.Christine Collange
   Words of Encouragement
5. Yes, I have doubted. I have wandererd off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. It is beyond the logic I seek. It is intuitive – an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem to find my way home. My faith has wavered but has saved me. Helen Hayes
   Faith



6. A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense. Proverbs 24:3 (NLT)
   Home
7. How much of an encourager are you? Even though common sense tells you that nagging is wrong, do you tend to harp on some characteristic of your wife or child that irritates you?Wayne and Judith Rolfs, Man in Command
   Encouraging
8. It is not common sense to assert that those who have achieved success have done so because they are lucky or that they have never failed. In fact, just the opposite is true in that failure has been and still is one of the best teachers in life. Catherine Pulsifer, Accepting Failure
   Failure
9. Its basic tenet is that companies should understand what their customers want before they invest in the creation of a new product or service. This common sense approach was aimed squarely at making the innovation process more efficient. Anthony Ulwick, What Customers Want
   Success
10. I do not have an innate prejudice against intellect, intelligence, or, for that matter, graduate degrees, but they are not substitutes for common sense, people sense, or street smarts. Mark H. McCormack, What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
    Graduation



11. Good sense is as important as good food.
    Irish Proverbs
12. Sometimes the way objections are phrased can put people in a defensive mood. But if the rejection is based on good sense and is put forward in a positive manner you would be surprised to the reaction you get. Catherine Pulsifer, Showing Common Sense
    Positive
13. Common Sense insists on the exceptional character of the American case, seeing it as an asylum for mankind, the last uncorrupted country and resting place for freedom.Thomas Paine, Mark Philp Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
    Famous Quotes
14. Gumption is an old-timey word for spunk and common sense. People with gumption – often seemingly unsophisticated characters who happen to be quite wise – are staples of folklore the world over.Robert B. O’Connor, Gumptionade
    Character



15. Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings
    Cool
16. An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. ‘Can they be brought together?’ This is a practical question. We must get down to it. ‘I despise intelligence’ really means: ‘I cannot bear my doubts.’ Albert Camus
    Doubt
17. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. Victor Borge
    Knowledge
18. Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Samuel Smiles
    Wise



19. Common sense is very uncommon. Horace Greeley
    Funny
20. It is a pleasure to meet people – who possess common sense.Grenville Kleiser
    Random
21. Employers sometimes think that younger people are more adaptable, learn more quickly and have more energy to dedicate to work, but they also recognise that older workers are often more committed, more reliable, and have wisdom and common sense. John Lees, How To Get A Job You Love
    Age
22. Here is one of the most important principles of success: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the same results. And if you don’t, you won’t.Brian Tracy, Million Dollar Habits
    Motivational Poems
23. Emotional stability is necessary for rational thinking and physical health. Feelings of happiness, love, gratitude, compassion, self-respect, security, self-reliance and self-confidence, and satisfaction are wholesome and constructive. Roy Eugene Davis, How to Use Your Creative Imagination
    Health



24. Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead
    Genius
25. Common sense is the exercise of applying experiential learning to a situation heretofore inexperienced in order to establish an action or behavior that leads to satisfactory conclusion.Byron R. Pulsifer
    Action
26. Common sense is said to be the best distributed commodity in the world. That should be reassuring, when so many other assets are so unequally shared here on Earth! Pierre LENA, Professor, Paris VII-Denis Diderot University
    Sharing
27. Commonsense knowledge is a saturation of cultural knowledge that we cannot fail to recognize and which, through its very obviousness, passes without notice. To the extent that notions of commonsense rest on shared cultural resources, they are able to pass unnoticed in interaction. Celine-Marie Pascale, Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender
    Diversity



28. The art of common sense is applying the best wisdom we know today based on all our yesterdays. Wilfred Peterson
    Motivational
29. By avoiding negative influences and becoming a sponge, soaking up the knowledge and experience of those who have succeeded, you can begin a life full of successful endeavors. Charles Kenneth, How to Achieve Lasting Success in Life
    Influence
30. I love my little routines (don’t we all?), and my comfort zone is very comfortable, but the idea of doing everything just as I’ve always done it, without anything new ever? Barbara Hannah Grufferman
    Comfort Zone
31. 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
    Humor
32. The more solid, sensible, common-sense, loving steps we take, the greater the chances of helping our children become the kind of children we want them to be and wish we had been when we were growing up.Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
    Children
33. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Josh Billings
    Quotes to Live By
34. Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense; no one thinks he needs more of it than he already had. Descartes
    Attitude   |



35. All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. Thomas H. Huxley
    Truth
36. In light of my experience in working closely with dozens of manufacturers, and having a passing knowledge of hundreds of manufacturers, common sense just isn’t common practice. . . If manufacturers would just do the basics very well, their productivity would increase substantially, almost immediately. I have no doubt of this.Ron Moore, Making Common Sense Common Practice, Fourth Edition
    Work
37. If you want your employees to deliver excellent service, you’d better provide them with excellent leadership. Lee Cockerell, Creating Magic
    Leadership
38. The generations that grew up on McGuffey did better in common sense and common honesty. There is no escape from the need for moral precepts. The truths of life should be stated simply, clearly, and often to children.Henry Ford
    Honesty



39. No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Ashanti Proverb
    Funny Proverbs
40. Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. W. Somerset Maugham
    Life
41. 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
    Overcoming
42. 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
    Perseverance
43. Seek advice but use your own common sense. Yiddish Proverb
    Proverb
44. The common sense, the intelligence of America agree with mystatement that “America hates war. America hopes for peace.Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.” Franklin Roosevelt
    War
45. We need to replace fear and greed with common sense and the common good. Christopher Wasserman, Zermatt Summit Foundation
    Fear
46. A Common Sense Guide is important and necessary for a fulfilling life. That guide is within us and we can tap into it and use it to the fullest. What we need has been with each of us for a long time. That Common Sense guide is the Bible. Henry Adkins, Common Sense: Your Way To Success
    God



47. Common sense is of paramount importance in business and customer service. Author Unknown
    Customer Service
48. I know that may sound a bit ordinary and certainly doesn’t appear to be provocative or unique, but it is an essential part of continuous growth. The brain needs food just like any other part of the body relies on you eating so that it may function properly. Byron Pulsifer, To Do It Is Common Sense
    Growth
49. There may be times when all of us feel like we’re trapped in a paper sack, but with a little bit of common sense we can fight our way out. Henry Adkins, Common Sense
    Funny Quotes about Life
50. Absolutely nothing needs to change in your life in order for you to feel better. You simply need to see something about the nature of your own thinking that you didn’t see before. Richard Carlson, You Can Feel Good Again
    Positive Thinking

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