Ben Nelson Quotes

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

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

Common sense is very uncommon.

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

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

... common sense is very rare.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

I'm very level-headed and business minded.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Common sense is the best prophet.

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

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.