Voltaire Quotes

Common sense is often underrated.

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

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Common sense is not so common.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

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

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

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

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.