Sense Quotes

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to please in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Much madness is divinest sense—
To a discerning eye—
Much sense—the starkest madness—
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevail—
Assent—and you are sane—
Demur—you're straightway dangerous—
And handled with a chain.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use

Common sense is not so common.