Uncommon sense is common nonsense.

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there…

— Henry David Thoreau

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

— Bryant H. McGill

I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get…

— Theodora Goss

“There is far too much common nonsense, and not nearly enough uncommon sense about fruit.”

— Mango Wodzak

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too…

— Charlie Munger

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you…

— Charlie Munger

“My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes…

— Anonymous

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

— John Masefield

Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

— Theodora Goss

“If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that…

— Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

“One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to…

— Alain de Botton

“In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.”

— Juliet Castle

“People think common sense is common - but it's not.”

— Don Cherry