Rene Descartes Quotes

Common sense is often underrated.

... common sense is very rare.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

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

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Common sense is not so common.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

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.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

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

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

People are not stupid.

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