Common sense is like deodorant...The people who need it most never use it.

Topics: Common Sense Quotes

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain...

Peace, like charity, begins at home

Peace, like charity, begins at home

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if...

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if...

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have...

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have...

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as...

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as...

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of...

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of...

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if...

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if...

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant

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

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness;...

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness;...