A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intelligence Clothes Common Common Sense Dressed Genius Sense Working

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.

Iris Apfel

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

Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.

Oscar de la Renta

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Francois Guizot

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

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

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.