Modern society Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

— James Russell Lowell

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

— Al McGuire

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

— Francois Guizot

“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.”

— Amit Kalantri

“common sense is a powerful mixture of 'gut feeling' and intelligence.”

— Sophie Cornish

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it,…

— Martin Amis

“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”

— René Descartes