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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.—H. W. BEECHER
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it.—BULWER-LYTTON
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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.—TRYON EDWARDS
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.—EMERSON, Art
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Common Sense, which, one would say, means the shortest line between two points.—EMERSON, Journals
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Sword of Common Sense! Our surest gift.—GEORGE MEREDITH, To the Comic Spirit
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Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit to one man of sense. He that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for readier change.—POPE
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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.—Proverb
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Common sense is the growth of all countries.—Proverb
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A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.—Proverb
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I think that common sense, in a rough, dogged way, is technically sounder than the special schools of philosophy, each of which squints and overlooks half the facts and half the difficulties in its eagerness to find in some detail the key to the whole.—SANTAYANA, Obiter Scripta
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Common sense is not so comnon.—VOLTAIRE
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best phiosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.—SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
