A Quote by Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
French - Novelist
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

Madame de Stael

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Joshua Reynolds

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 mankind.

Francois Guizot

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Joseph Chenier

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

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