Common Sense Quotes

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

~ Helen Rowland

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

~ H. L. Mencken

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

~ Thomas Reid

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

~ Thomas Huxley

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

~ Dan Simmons

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

~ Noam Chomsky

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

~ Nas

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

~ Matthew Arnold

Common sense is not so common.

~ Voltaire

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

~ Wale

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

~ Josh Billings

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

~ Helen Gurley Brown

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

~ Mike Crapo

The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

~ Caity Lotz

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

~ William Osler

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

~ Ambrose Bierce

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

~ Andrew Weil

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

~ Jerry Lewis

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

~ Julian Casablancas

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

~ Dean Inge

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense often makes good law.

~ William O. Douglas