#common sense

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 who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗

— Voltaire

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Common sense is very uncommon. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Taste is the common sense of genius. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Common sense is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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