Uncommon Sense Quotes

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

John Masefield

#2. Uncommon sense is common nonsense.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. 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

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

Bryant H. McGill

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Kalifer Deil

#9. 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

#10. Bickering based on in-laws' actions and behaviour were not uncommon between husbands and wives. Arguments of such nature usually erected a temporary wall between couples that mended with the passage of time. However, such wrangling left Neha with a sense of impending doom.

Neetha Joseph

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

#12. 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

#13. Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

Charles Perrault

#14. Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Amit Abraham

#15. 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

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

Aaron B. Powell

#17. While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Randy Forbes

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

Evan Esar

#19. 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

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#21. 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

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

Dean Inge

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

Jason Jennings

#24. Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth ... a unique fashion sense ... In MEN ... a unique nose ... or accents ...

Emmy Rossum

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

Samuel Butler

#26. 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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#31. Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

Roy Blount Jr.

#32. Common sense is very uncommon.

Horace Greeley

#33. 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