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| A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. | | Buddha | |
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| Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. | | William James | |
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| Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone | | Edgar Watson Howe | |
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| Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. | | Victor Hugo | |
| Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. | | Josh Billings | |
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| Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18 | | Albert Einstein | |
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| Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have | | Rene Descartes | |
| Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. | | Josh Billings | |
| Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have. | | Rene Descartes | |
