Famous Quotes about Common Sense (60 Quotations)

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

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Common Sense is very uncommon.

Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Good sense is the master of human life.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

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

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

My greatest strength is… common sense. I'm really a standard brand — like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

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

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained — but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.