The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

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

Rene Descartes

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 collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Common sense often makes good law.

William Orville Douglas

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.

John Mortimer

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Margaret Deland

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian Proverb