Common Sense

• Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. — Anonymous
• 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 genius in homespun. — Alfred North Whitehead
• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley
• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. — Victor Hugo
• Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Descartes
• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton