Common sense Quote by Henri Frédéric Amiel Swiss Philosopher

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

— Tryon Edwards

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and…

— Marvin Minsky

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

— Josh Billings

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

— William Fleming

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

— Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is the best sense I know of.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Giambattista Vico