Top 64 Quotes About Common Sense And Wisdom
#1. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
#2. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Andy Stanley
#3. After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable ... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.
Jim Cramer
#4. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Leo Tolstoy
#5. To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
Horace Walpole
#6. Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#7. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#9. It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.
Jerry Vines
#11. Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art
Gary Hopkins
#12. 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farrer
#13. Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.
Debasish Mridha
#14. We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.
Philip Gulley
#15. I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !!
Jojo1980
#16. I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!
C. JoyBell C.
#18. Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#19. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.
Deborah L. Parker
#20. With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
#21. 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
#23. Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
#25. All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.
Gary Hopkins
#26. Good health is subjective and cumulative depending on individual interpretation. Do not allow someone else's shortcomings to become yours.
Gary Hopkins
#27. The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, "deep common sense," balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.
Pearl Zhu
#28. wisdom is common sense lit by imagination." "What
Joanna Cannan
#29. 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
#30. We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.
Gary Hopkins
#31. Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#32. Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
#34. Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
Sarah Palin
#35. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#36. His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#37. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#39. Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
M.M. Kaye
#40. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
Rick Perlstein
#41. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.
Gillian Duce
#43. It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
Pearl Zhu
#44. Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.
Gary Hopkins
#45. Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense
Buda
#46. Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
Barbara Tuchman
#47. The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
Oswald Chambers
#49. There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
Idries Shah
#50. There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.
Gary Hopkins
#51. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. 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
#53. The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Christopher Lasch
#54. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We
Richard Carlson
#55. To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
Samuel Smiles
#57. Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Joyce Meyer
#58. You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#59. 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
#60. Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas
#61. Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
Joseph Joubert
#62. Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.
Ben Carson
#63. Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.
Anthony Liccione
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