Michelle Obama Quotes

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

... common sense is very rare.

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Common sense is often underrated.

Experience helps you read certain situations better and make less mistakes in terms of behavior.

I am always a woke person, know about things, always feel a certain type of way.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

There's a disconnect between my mind and my heart, but I feel the truth. They say when people lose their vision, their hearing comes sharper. I've lost part of my memory but maybe my intuition is stronger.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.