Common Sense Is Uncommon Quotes & Sayings

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense. — Evan Esar

It's pretty amazing how uncommon common sense is. — Aaron B. Powell

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Common sense, indeed!" said the Rocket indignantly; "you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable. Why, anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. But I have imagination, for I never think of things as they really are; I always think of them as being quite different. As for keeping myself dry, there is evidently no one here who can at all appreciate an emotional nature. Fortunately for myself, I don't care. The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. — Oscar Wilde

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon
that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock. — Thomas Sowell

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

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

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

On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is. — Kalifer Deil

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Uncommon sense is common nonsense. — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

Common sense is very uncommon. — Horace Greeley

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

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

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. — Jason Jennings

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

Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete. — Mike Hebert

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

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. — Dean Inge

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

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. — Joseph Addison

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

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

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense. — Bryant H. McGill

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. — Amit Abraham

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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