Common Quote by Jacques Maritain

“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

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

— Giambattista Vico

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 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 genius of mankind.

— Francois Guizot

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

— Anonymous

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

— William Rounseville Alger

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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