America Quote by Peggy Noonan

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

— John Berger

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

— Margaret Fuller

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

— Will Rogers

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

— Victor Hugo

“As the sociologist Ann Swidler has observed, “common sense”is really just deeply embedded culture: “the set of assumptions so unselfconscious as to seem a…

— Thomas E. Ricks

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

— Mike Tyson

Common sense is not something you're born with, it's something you're taught.

— Stacee Plotner

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Joseph Priestley

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Common sense is as rare as genius.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of…

— W. Somerset Maugham