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
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. – Proverb
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. – Henry Ward Beecher
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Josh Billings
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. – Samuel Butler
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. – Leonardo DaVinci
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes
Doesnt make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when youre trying to clean. – James Dye
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. – Euripides
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. – Henry Fielding
The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process. – George Gallup
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. – Johann von Goethe
Common sense is the genius of humanity. – Johann von Goethe
