Ty Pennington Quotes

Common sense is not so common.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

People are not stupid.

You don't get old being stupid.

Fools are not mad folks.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

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.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

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

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

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.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

You have to have the common sense.