Common Sense Is Uncommon Quotes

#1. Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. Then came the Butlerian Jihad - two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: "Man may not be replaced." Those

Frank Herbert

#3. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Dean Inge

#4. I really believe that with a little bit of information, kids can make a big difference.

Chelsea Clinton

#5. Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

Denis Waitley

#6. If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

Henry David Thoreau

#7. There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#8. A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person.

Steven D. Levitt

#9. Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Margery Allingham

#10. Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#11. Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Samuel Butler

#12. Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Amit Abraham

#13. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Patrick Lencioni

#14. It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is.

Aaron B. Powell

#15. The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Evan Esar

#16. 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.

Baron D'Holbach

#17. Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

Charlie Munger

#18. If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Seek truth from facts.

Deng Xiaoping

#21. I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

Amy Bloom

#22. The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

Voltaire

#23. On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.

Kalifer Deil

#24. Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

Richard Diaz

#25. Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

John Masefield

#26. Uncommon sense is common nonsense.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. Common sense is very uncommon.

Horace Greeley

#28. 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

#29. It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

Ville Valo

#30. A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

Sandra M. Michelle

#31. Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

Jason Jennings

#32. The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

Bryant H. McGill

#33. What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,
for there must be subordination,
but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. A gentleman will
Never allow a lady
To feel less than grand.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#36. Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Tryon Edwards

#37. Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#38. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#39. The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense.

G.K. Chesterton