Quote by Thomas E. Ricks

“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

“You have to go beyond ordinary people in order to understand and apply the concept of common sense.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

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

“In a world of diversity, and cultural differences... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.”

— Carla VanKoughnett

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

— Giambattista Vico

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

— Sophie Cornish

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

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 the folklore of philosophy.

— Antonio Gramsci

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

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every day, as I see how my new counterparts work in Spain, France, and Italy, I am asking myself if it is possible that…

— Erin Meyer