Everyday Wisdom Quotes

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

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

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

You can learn from everybody.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

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

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.

What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.

The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common sense.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or who spend most of their day in libraries. But every human is, in an important sense, a carrier of an implicit philosophy - evident in their choices, pronouncements and commitments.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.