Appeals Quote by Thomas Sowell

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

— Voltaire

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make…

— David Hume

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

— Anonymous

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

— Anonymous

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

— E. W. Howe

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

— Kin Hubbard

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

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

— Joseph Joubert

Common sense is really not a treasured gift, sometimes it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

— David Kreger

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

— Francois Guizot