Inspirational common sense quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Most Famous Common Sense Quotes
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. George Bernard Shaw
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
Top 15 things money can’t buy Time. Happiness. Inner peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. Roy T. Bennett
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. Sam Raybur
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein
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. Rene Descartes
Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. Stuart Chase
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippmann
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick to itiveness; third, common sense.Thomas A. Edison
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. John Mortimer
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippmann
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Patrick Lencioni
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
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Cat Stevens
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. M. M. Kaye
Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. E. A. Bucchianeri
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth you can’t have high standards without good discipline. William Hague
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. Clive James
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette
Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. Giorgio de Chirico
Common Sense insists on the exceptional character of the American case, seeing it as an asylum for mankind, the last uncorrupted country and resting place for freedom. Thomas Paine
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not common sense to assert that those who have achieved success have done so because they are lucky or that they have never failed. Catherine Pulsifer
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. H. L. Mencke
I am not saying that being educated is of no value, what I am saying is that many times experience brings common sense which is something that just reading a book or studying does not give you. Catherine Pulsifer
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. Christine Collange
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton
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. Rene Descartes
My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life. Jurgen Klopp
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education. Victor Hugo
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. Thomas Jefferson
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. Fred G. Gosman
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice? Eliyahu Goldratt
I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense. Ellen Page
Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms. Travis Bradberry
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
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. William Inge
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
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. Joyce Meyer
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If elephants didn’t exist, you couldn’t invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. Lyall Watson
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Henry Ward Beecher
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. George Berkeley
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. James Reston
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. Henry A. Wallace
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. William Inge
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Isabel Allende
He’s a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw
Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense. Eliyahu Goldratt
We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes. Hozier
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
What is common sense isn’t common practice. Stephen Covey
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Henry Ward Beecher
