33 Common Sense Quotes For Life

In a world filled with noise and complexity, sometimes what we truly need is a dose of common sense to navigate life’s challenges. Wisdom doesn't always come from profound philosophies; often, it resides in simple truths and straightforward insights. This collection of 33 common sense quotes aims to inspire clarity and encourage practical thinking in everyday situations. Whether you’re seeking guidance or a moment of reflection, these quotes offer timeless wisdom that is both accessible and illuminating. Each one serves as a gentle reminder that sometimes the simplest ideas are the most profound.

1. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” - Thomas Paine

2. “intuition is always right in at least two important ways;It is always in response to something.it always has your best interest at heart” - Gavin De Becker

3. “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin

4. “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ” - W.C. Fields

5. “Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.” - Christopher Paolini

6. “Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” - Henry Ford

7. “Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” - René Descartes

8. “I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!” - J.K. Rowling

9. “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” - Winston Churchill

10. “At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.” - Mark Twain

11. “Common sense is as rare as genius.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.” - Aijaz Ahmad

13. “If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.(p.72)” - Chip Heath & Dan Heath

14. “He who must travel happily must travel light.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

15. “That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.” - Vladimir Nabokov

16. “Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.” - Lord Kelvin

17. “1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.” - Larry Niven

18. “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” - Robert G. Ingersoll

19. “The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.” - Oswald Chambers

20. “The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.” - Criss Jami

21. “If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn’t live much of a life.” - Carroll Bryant

22. “[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.” - Georgette Heyer

23. “Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected” - Robert Orben

24. “Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.” - Edward Abbey

25. “In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.” - Michael Faraday

26. “Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.” - M.M. Kaye

27. “Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.” - Zack W. Van

28. “But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.” - Thomas Paine

29. “Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.” - Don DeLillo

30. “The common person fears to think beyond the common.” - Bryant McGill

31. “Shut out anyone who upsets your peace of mind, right now.” - Sindhu S.

32. “Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.” - Karl Pilkington

33. “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” - Shannon L. Alder