A Quote by Francois Guizot

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Francois Guizot

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Francois Guizot
French - Statesman
October 4, 1787 - September 12, 1874

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

Josh Billings

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

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

David Hume

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

E. F. Benson

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Josh Billings

I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

Theodora Goss

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.