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

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 0 reads

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

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.5 · 49 votes · 93 reads

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• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 184 reads

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

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 84 reads

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

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 8 reads

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• Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.6 · 52 votes · 10 reads

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

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  Anonymous

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• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.7 · 48 votes · 20 reads

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• Good sense is the master of human life.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 50 votes · 44 reads

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

  

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

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 51 votes · 11 reads

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• 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

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 28 reads

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 159 reads

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

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 189 reads

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• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.2 · 31 votes · 92 reads

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

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 157 reads

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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 36 votes · 16 reads

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• Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 112 reads

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• Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

  MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 74 reads

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• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.9 · 40 votes · 199 reads

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• The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 22 votes · 186 reads

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

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 4 reads

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• 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.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 69 reads

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

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 129 reads

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• There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 1 reads

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• To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.3 · 47 votes · 106 reads

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• We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 160 reads

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• What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 162 reads

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• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 53 reads

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 7 votes · 13 reads

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• 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.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 62 reads

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