A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Common sense hides shame.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Common sense is not so common.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.