(32 votes)   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
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(113 votes)   Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(109 votes)   Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(101 votes)   Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(70 votes)   The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(63 votes)   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
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(58 votes)   One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian Proverb
Sayings of Persian Origin

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(54 votes)   Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(52 votes)   Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(42 votes)   Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

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(42 votes)   That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith
1828-1909, British Author

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(39 votes)   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. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(32 votes)   Common sense hides shame.

Gaelic Proverb
Sayings of Gaelic Origin

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(31 votes)   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
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(30 votes)   Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

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