Rene Descartes Quotes

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.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

Common sense is not so common.

... common sense is very rare.

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

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

Common sense is often underrated.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

... smart but not wise.

Some are smart but they are not wise

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.