Basics Quote by Joan Blades

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

— Rene Descartes

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

— Rene Descartes

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

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been…

— Edwin Land

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Joseph Priestley

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

— Ahmet Davutoglu

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

— Mark Walport

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, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee