49 Common-Sense Quotes

In a world brimming with information and complexity, sometimes all we need is a dose of common sense to navigate our way through life's challenges. Simple yet profoundly impactful, common-sense wisdom serves as a guiding beacon that helps us make sound decisions and maintain our well-being. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, clarity, or just a touch of practical advice, our curated collection of the top 49 common-sense quotes is here to enlighten and empower you. Dive in to explore timeless truths that resonate deeply with the everyday experiences we all share.

1. “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde

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. “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

5. “Common sense ain't common.” - Will Rogers

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

7. “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

8. “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” - Victor Hugo

9. “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.” - St Jerome

10. “Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.” - Stuart Chase

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

12. “Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.” - Oscar Wilde

13. “Never assume the obvious is true.” - William Safire

14. “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

15. “In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” - Lucy Maud Montgomery

16. “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

17. “Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music.” - Yvonne Prinz

18. “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?” - Isaac Asimov

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

20. “For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.” - Vera Nazarian

21. “If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.” - Toba Beta

22. “The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.” - Kedar Joshi

23. “Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.” - Sarah Palin

24. “Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.” - William Blake

25. “If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.” - George Harrison

26. “Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.” - Molly Harper

27. “She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.” - Jeannette Walls

28. “It is love that is sacred," she said." Listen, child, to an old woman who has seen three generations, and who has had a long experience of men and women. Marriage and love have nothing in common. We marry to found a family, and we form families in order to constitute society. Society cannot dispense with marriage. If society is a chain, each family is a link in that chain. In order to weld those links, we always seek metals of the same order. When we marry, we must bring together suitable conditions; we must combine fortunes, unite similiar races and aim at the common interest, which is riches and children. We marry only once, my child, because the world requires us to do so, but we love twenty times in one lifetime because nature has made us like this. Marriage, you see, is law and love is an instinct which impels us, sometimes along a straight, and sometimes along a devious path. The world has made laws to combat our instincts- it was necessary to make them; but our instincts are always stronger, and we ought not to resist them too much, because they come from God; while laws come from men. If we did not perfume life with love, as much love as possible,darling, as we put sugar into drugs for children, nobody would care to take it just as it is.” - Guy de Maupassant

29. “There is no monopoly of common senseOn either side of the political fenceWe share the same biologyRegardless of ideologyBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too[...]There's no such thing as a winnable warIt's a lie we don't believe anymore ..."(The Russians)” - Sting

30. “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

31. “[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

32. “Knowledge counts but common sense matters.” - LouAnne Johnson

33. “Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.” - Ludwig Von Mises

34. “You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk” - kiran desai

35. “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

36. “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

37. “In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.” - Lin Yutang

38. “Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.” - Anthony Liccione

39. “You can always start over the next day.” - B. Anonymous

40. “Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?” - Holly Robinson

41. “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

42. “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

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

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

45. “Books and minds only work when they're open.” - James Dewar

46. “Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” - René Descartes

47. “Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

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

49. “Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art” - Gary Hopkins