Wednesday 17 May 2017

Common Sense Sayings and Quotes



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.    

Franklin D. Roosevelt





Common sense is calculation applied to life.    

Henri Fr_d_ric Amiel





Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.    

Victor Hugo





Common sense is the ability to see things as they are without prejudice and do things as they ought to be done without influence of any kind.

Josh Billings





Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.    

Josh Billings





Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge





Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.    

W. Somerset Maugham





Common sense hides shame.

Gaelic Proverb





Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson





Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein





Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha





It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green





Common sense is strengthened by joy.    

Rebbe Nachman Of Breslov





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

Harriet Beecher Stowe





The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.    

Henry Ward Beecher





Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.    

Thomas Jefferson





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





Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.    

Christian Nestell Bovee





Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw





Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo da Vinci





A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

Proverb





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

Catherine Pulsifer





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

Descartes





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

Ashanti Proverb





Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood





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

Gertrude Stein





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

Ralph Waldo Emerson





One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.    

Proverb





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

Proverb





The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.    

Samuel Butler

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