Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
—Helen Rowland
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
—Gertrude Stein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
—Albert Einstein
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
—Don Wood
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
—Douglas Adams
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
—Lord Chesterfield
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
—Matthew Arnold
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
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
—Tom Stoppard
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
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
—Josh Billings