Common Sense Quotes

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Common Sense Quotes:
"Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." - Plato

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner

"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." - Don Wood

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." - C. E. Stowe

Common Sense Quotes:
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." - James Boswell

"I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play." - Thomas Jefferson

"It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form correct judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." - Calvin Coolidge

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." - John Adams

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Common Sense Quotes:
"I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble." - Rudyard Kipling

"There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man." - Aristotle

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

"Often a dash of judgment is better than a flash of genius." - Howard Newton

"The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people." - Mark Twain

Common Sense Quotes:
"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning." - Proverb

"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
- Lord Chesterfield

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." - Philip K. Dick

"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility." - Susan Sontag

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
- Niels Bohr

Common Sense Quotes:
"Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow." - Austin Dacey

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

"If you isolate your problem from others, your chances of solving it are thin. Problems require wisdom, and wisdom requires perspective. Other people provide that perspective." - Bill Russell

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense." - Anna Jameson

"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty." - Cecil Baxter

Common Sense Quotes:
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." - Lin Yutang

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

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