Top 50 Common Sense Quotes to Make You Smarter

Top 50 Common Sense Quotes to Make You Smarter

Last updated on January 5th, 2024 at 12:52 pm

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The key to living a healthy life is common sense. It is essential for practical reasons and for helping people make wise decisions in day-to-day living.

Common sense enables you to solve difficulties and manage daily challenges more effectively and with less effort. A person with common sense is not only trustworthy but also strong and will help those around them. Because of their strong sense of duty and judgment, they can be relied upon right away.

Below is a collection of quotations about common sense to help you think clearly and become a better person.

Thomas Paine Common Sense Quotes

Thomas Paine was a crucial figure in both the American and French Revolutions. He immigrated to America in 1774, briefly assisting in editing the Pennsylvania Magazine. He released his pamphletย Common Sense on January 10, 1776, making a solid case for the coloniesโ€™ political and economic independence from Britain. Here are some of his best quotes from Common Sense:

โ€œCommon sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œI offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œFrom the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œWhen we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œThe more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œTime makes more converts than reason.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œSuch is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œGive me liberty, or give me death.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œSociety in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable oneโ€ฆโ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œImmediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE

โ€œSociety is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.โ€ย 

THOMAS PAINE
The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.
โ€œThe cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.โ€

Common Sense Sarcastic Quotes

Below we have shortlisted some of the best sarcastic quotes about common sense. These quotes are not only funny but will also help in learning.

โ€œCommon sense is not so common.โ€

VOLTAIRE

ย โ€œThere is nothing more uncommon than common sense.โ€ย 

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

โ€œWhat is common sense isnโ€™t common practice.โ€

STEPHEN COVEY

ย โ€œCommon sense is what tells us the earth is flat.โ€

STUART CHASE

โ€œPhilosophy is common sense with big words.โ€

JAMES MADISON

โ€œIf you donโ€™t want a sarcastic answer, donโ€™t ask a stupid question.โ€

ANONYMOUS

ย โ€œPeople say you cannot live without loveโ€ฆ I think oxygen is more important.โ€

ANONYMOUS

โ€œCommon Sense is like a deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.โ€

ANONYMOUS
Common Sense is the most limited of all natural resources.
โ€œCommon Sense is the most limited of all natural resources.โ€

Lack of Common Sense Quotes

When someone holds onto a belief or behaviour despite facts pointing to the need for a different way to think or act, it may be said that they lack common sense. Such a person is frequently described as โ€œfixed in their waysโ€ and unchangeable. Below we have listed some quotes about people who lack common sense:

โ€œCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.โ€ย 

ALBERT EINSTEIN

โ€œMany sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.โ€

JOYCE MEYER

โ€œCommon sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense..โ€ย 

EVAN ESAR

โ€œA lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.โ€ย 

CRISS JAMI

ย โ€œI find your lack of common sense disturbingโ€ฆ not surprising but disturbing.โ€

ANONYMOUS
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
โ€œA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.โ€

More Common Sense Quotes

Common sense is the innate capacity to draw conclusions from information, logic, and reasoning. Here are some more common sense-related quotes:

โ€œOur best theories are not only truer thanย commonย sense, they make moreย senseย thanย commonย sense.โ€ย 

DAVID DEUTSCH

โ€œEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose theirย commonย sense.โ€ย 

GERTRUDE STEIN

โ€œAnybody can haveย commonย sense, provided that they have no imagination.โ€ย 

OSCAR WILDE

โ€œThings do not change; we change.โ€ย 

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

โ€œCommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.โ€ย 

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

โ€œIf a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.โ€ย 

SAM RAYBURN

โ€œCommon sense is the genius of humanity.โ€ย 

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

โ€œThe genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.โ€ย 

WALTER LIPPMANN

โ€œI am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail.โ€ย 

CAT STEVENS

โ€œWhen unsure how to solve a problem, use your common sense.โ€ย 

CATHERINE PULSIFER

โ€œKnowledge counts but common sense matters.โ€ย 

LOUANNE JOHNSON

โ€œKnowledge counts but common sense matters.โ€ย 

LOUANNE JOHNSON

โ€œFaith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.โ€ย 

GEORGE SEATON

โ€œCommon sense often makes good law.โ€ย 

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

โ€œAll truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.โ€ย 

THOMAS H. HUXLEY

โ€œCommon sense is the best sense I know of.โ€ย 

LORD CHESTERFIELD

โ€œIt is a pleasure to meet people โ€“ who possess common sense.โ€ย 

GRENVILLE KLEISER

โ€œThe art of common sense is applying the best wisdom we know today based on all our yesterdays.โ€ย 

WILFRED PETERSON

โ€œNo one tests the depth of a river with both feet.โ€ย 

ASHANTI PROVERB

โ€œCommon sense is of paramount importance in business and customer service.โ€ย 

ANONYMOUS

โ€œThere may be times when all of us feel like weโ€™re trapped in a paper sack, but with a little bit of common sense we can fight our way out.โ€ย 

HENRY ADKINS
Seek advice but use your own common sense.
โ€œSeek advice but use your own common sense.โ€

Have you ever had a situation where using your common sense made all the difference? Never underestimate the value of common sense, cooperation, and effort.
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He is a tech enthusiast with a computer engineering degree who finds joy in life's simple pleasures. Beyond his tech endeavors, Sudhanshu is into music, particularly Hip Hop. Inspired by quotes like 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and Tupac's wisdom, he loves to perform and inspire through his music. When not working, Sudhanshu can be found reading tech blogs, listening to rap music, and enjoying a game or two.

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