Common Quote by Richard Chenevix Trench

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

— Josh Billings

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

— Joseph Priestley

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

— William Rounseville Alger

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

— Giambattista Vico

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

— Anonymous

“Common sense isn't as common as its name implies”

— Douglas Thompson

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

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

— Sam Rayburn