Rudolf Steiner Quotes

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

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

... common sense is very rare.

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

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.

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

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

The wise are above books.

People are not stupid.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

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

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

Human beings understand too much.

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.

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

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Common sense is not so common.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.