Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Common Sense

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes (1596–1650) French Mathematician, Philosopher

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. 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. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley (1819–75) English Clergyman, Academic, Historian, Novelist

Good sense is the master of human life.
Unknown

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
Unknown

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 (1809–94) American Theologian, Author

Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common sense is always: “What is it good for?” a question which would abolish the rose, and be triumphantly answered by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

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.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
Unknown

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang (1920–90) Chinese-born American Engineer, Inventor, Entrepreneur

No man is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in his composition—a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

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

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

Common Sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley (1811–72) American Journalist, Author

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is “folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.” But with common sense, it is wisdom; with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903) English Clergyman, Writer

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, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas (1894–1967) English Literary Critic, Poet, Novelist, Playwright

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Unknown

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

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