Average Quote by William Rounseville Alger

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

— William Fleming

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

— Sam Rayburn

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Rene Descartes

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 most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those…

— Rene Descartes

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Giambattista Vico