“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men.”
Marcus Procius Cato

“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
James Madison

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Robert Green Ingersoll

“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 the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein

“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”
George Santayana

“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

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done.“
Unknown Source

“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 Frédéric Amiel

“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

“It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquillity and occupation that will give you happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)

“Common sense is as rare as genius, – is the basis of genius”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
Thomas Alva Edison quotes (Most famous American Inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1.093 patents. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial research laboratory, 1847-1931)

“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 quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

“A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning”
Proverb quotes

“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)

“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 quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

“In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion”
James Reston quotes (Scottish Journalist, 1909-1995)

“Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult”
William Somerset Maugham

“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next”
Henry Ward Beecher

“Seek advice but use your own common sense”
Yiddish Proverb

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
An Wang

“To reach a port, we must sail – Sail, not tie at anchor – Sail, not drift.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
Jim Rohn

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. “
Arthur Ashe

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin