Common sense Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

— John Henry Newman

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

“Marriage is a matter for common sense." "But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only…

— Oscar Wilde

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

— Juvenal

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

— William Rounseville Alger

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What men do matters more than what they know.

— John Christopher

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store:…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it…

— Aristotle