More quotations tagged with “common sense”
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
—Josh Billings
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
—William James
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
—Tom Stoppard
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde