E. W. Howe Quotes

Common sense is very uncommon.

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

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

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.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

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.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common