Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

... common sense is very rare.

He means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes and in some things absolutely out of his senses.

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.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

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

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

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

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

I seek the truth.

Common sense is often underrated.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The least foolish is wise.