Top 50 Common Sense Quotes to Make You Smarter
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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 pamphlet Common Sense on January 10, 1776, making a solid case for the colonies’ political and economic independence from Britain. Here are some of his best quotes from Common Sense:
“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.”
THOMAS PAINE
“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.”
THOMAS PAINE
“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.”
THOMAS PAINE
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
THOMAS PAINE
“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.”
THOMAS PAINE
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
THOMAS PAINE
“Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
THOMAS PAINE
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
THOMAS PAINE
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one…”
THOMAS PAINE
“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”
THOMAS PAINE
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
THOMAS PAINE
“Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.”
THOMAS PAINE
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.
“Common sense is not so common.”
VOLTAIRE
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“What is common sense isn’t common practice.”
STEPHEN COVEY
“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
STUART CHASE
“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
JAMES MADISON
“If you don’t want a sarcastic answer, don’t ask a stupid question.”
ANONYMOUS
“People say you cannot live without love… I think oxygen is more important.”
ANONYMOUS
“Common Sense is like a deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
ANONYMOUS
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 “fixed in their ways” and unchangeable. Below we have listed some quotes about people who lack common sense:
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”
JOYCE MEYER
“Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense..”
EVAN ESAR
“A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.”
CRISS JAMI
“I find your lack of common sense disturbing… not surprising but disturbing.”
ANONYMOUS
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:
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.”
DAVID DEUTSCH
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
GERTRUDE STEIN
“Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.”
OSCAR WILDE
“Things do not change; we change.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
“If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.”
SAM RAYBURN
“Common sense is the genius of humanity.”
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
“The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”
WALTER LIPPMANN
“I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail.”
CAT STEVENS
“When unsure how to solve a problem, use your common sense.”
CATHERINE PULSIFER
“Knowledge counts but common sense matters.”
LOUANNE JOHNSON
“Knowledge counts but common sense matters.”
LOUANNE JOHNSON
“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”
GEORGE SEATON
“Common sense often makes good law.”
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
THOMAS H. HUXLEY
“Common sense is the best sense I know of.”
LORD CHESTERFIELD
“It is a pleasure to meet people – who possess common sense.”
GRENVILLE KLEISER
“The art of common sense is applying the best wisdom we know today based on all our yesterdays.”
WILFRED PETERSON
“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”
ASHANTI PROVERB
“Common sense is of paramount importance in business and customer service.”
ANONYMOUS
“There may be times when all of us feel like we’re trapped in a paper sack, but with a little bit of common sense we can fight our way out.”
HENRY ADKINS
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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