#Common Sense Quotes

“Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

“Common sense is as rare as genius.”

“The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.”

“The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.”

“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”

“Commonsense is the wick of the candle.”

“Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

“If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.”

“Common sense is not too common.”

“Always drink upstream from the herd.”

“Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.”

“You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.”

“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”

“You don't have to be a genius to invest well”

“You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.”

“Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.”

“Common sense ain't common.”

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.”

“Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.”

“It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.”

“Don't squat with your spurs on.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.”

“Taste is the common sense of genius.”

“We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.”

“My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.”

“Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.”

“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”

“Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”

“The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.”

“In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.”

“Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.”

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.”

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”

“It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”

“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”

“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.”

“Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.”

“The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.”

“State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.”

“I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.”

“Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.”

“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.”

“Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.”