Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you…

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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

— Bryant H. McGill

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

“Uncommon sense is common nonsense.”

— G K Chesterton

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different…

— Gotye

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

— Rachel Joyce

“He learned that some things that seemed to make little sense were senseless only from his point of view, not necessarily from someone else's…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“If you think about the class-size puzzle this way, then what seems baffling starts to make a little more sense.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research…

— Charlie Huston

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

— Anonymous

Life makes little sense, and the more we grow the less sense it will make. So make the most of it now, before it…

— Anonymous

Whenever I see your smile, the world makes a little more sense again.

— Anonymous

“At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.”

— Daniel McHugh

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

— Freeman Dyson