A Quote by Horace Greeley

Common sense is very uncommon.

Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley
American - Editor
February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872

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

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

Bryant H. McGill

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 (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Lord Chesterfield

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

John Masefield

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 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

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 is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Tryon Edwards

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Amit Abraham

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Evan Esar

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

William Inge

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

Charlie Munger

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