Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Votes: 5
Gertrude SteinCommon Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciCommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. Votes: 3
Harriet Beecher StoweIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Votes: 3
Mark TwainCommon sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Votes: 3
Josh BillingsWe must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. Votes: 2
George A. SmithTo see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Votes: 2
Sun TzuLiterature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. Votes: 0
Henry Theodore TuckermanRevenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChildhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonOne must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.
Julius and Ethel RosenbergIt's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOne of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.
Geshe Kelsang GyatsoThe common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
John Lancaster SpaldingLeader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
Mary Parker FollettIf one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.
Velupillai PrabhakaranSelfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
William Jennings BryanCommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
Christian Nestell BoveeIf common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars
Francisco Largo CaballeroCommon sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
Benjamin FranklinWe must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.
Bonnie L. OscarsonIt is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.
Niccolo MachiavelliCertainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of HardwickeNothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
Charles R. SwindollThe masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Friedrich NietzscheIt makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.
Gerhard SchroderThe century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. WallacePoverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
Luis Alberto UrreaThe constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
Pope Tawadros II of AlexandriaUncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
Friedrich SchillerIn New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
George D. PrenticeThe man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
Hector Hugh MunroThe one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
Michael DouglasHowever wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Seneca the Youngercommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
Susanne Katherina LangerBeing nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.
Thomas BangalterIt often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.
Edmund SpenserWoman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
Honore de BalzacWhen we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
Marshall B. RosenbergDo every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
Wallace D. WattlesRich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Alfred Lord TennysonA common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
Leon Battista AlbertiItâs amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
Louisa May AlcottDevelopment must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.
Narendra ModiWe know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland BarthesAfter all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.
Ronald FisherThou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
William ShakespeareThere are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
George William FooteThe common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
H. L. MenckenDeath is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
Henry David ThoreauMass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.
Joyce BeattyA common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
Matt MullenwegNo republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
Mercy Otis WarrenThe most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Napoleon HillSport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations
Nelson MandelaThe only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
Phyllis DillerIt is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
Pierre BayleI was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A. HeinleinI never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
Robert MotherwellThe United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
S. I. HayakawaThe more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
Shane ClaiborneCommon sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
W. Somerset MaughamHeaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Alexander PopeOur lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
Christmas HumphreysBooks for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
Friedrich NietzscheA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAs a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.
Gunnar MyrdalCommerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. GarfieldMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
James ThurberWe should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
John WesleyThis very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
Michel de MontaigneThe most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.
Robert H. FrankWhat we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
Stephen KingThe most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
Stewart UdallNo race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
Thomas JeffersonThere are some things we will always own in common. No one will ever homestead an ocean.
Wally HickelScience and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Friedrich NietzscheWith all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?
Gabriel IglesiasThe only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
Joel MillerError is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
John LockeSome form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
Mahatma GandhiTruthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense
Talib KweliI do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.
Twyla TharpCommon sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.
Dana Gould... both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ...
Dorothy GilmanIt is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....
Edward GibbonThe common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.
Gabrielle DennisIn the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record.
Gavin ExtenceThe practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Henry JamesThe waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
HeraclitusWe are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Herbert HooverThere is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.
Jean Craighead George