Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

You have to have the common sense.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I'm not Mr. Goody-Good or anything, but I'm not stupid.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

People are not stupid.

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

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

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

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

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.