Claims Quote by Emily Dickinson

“You have to go beyond ordinary people in order to understand and apply the concept of common sense.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I talk common sense.

— George Blanda

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

— Joseph Priestley

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

— James Russell Lowell

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

— Giambattista Vico

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

— Kin Hubbard

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

— Joseph Joubert

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

— William Hazlitt

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“common sense is a powerful mixture of 'gut feeling' and intelligence.”

— Sophie Cornish

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge