One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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