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

— William Rounseville Alger

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

— Rene Descartes

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 not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and…

— Marvin Minsky

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“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 an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one…

— Josh Billings

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

— Giambattista Vico

Common sense is the measureof the possible; it is composedof experience and prevision; itis calculation appled to life.

— Henri Frédéric Amiel Swiss Philosopher