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| He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. | | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense | | Voltaire | |
| Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has | | Rene Descartes | |
| Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety | | Moliere | |
| Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. | | George Santayana | |
