quotations about common sense
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Letters and Social Aims
Common sense is of itself an income.
GEORGE WEBBE
attributed, Toasts and Tributes
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
ROLAND BARTHES
Mythologies
Common sense is like boiled vittles. It is good right from the pot, and it is good next day warmed up.
JOSH BILLINGS
The Complete Works of Josh Billings
Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Common sense is the genius of mankind.
GUIZOT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
EDWIN H. LAND
statement to Polaroid Corporation employees, June 25, 1958