Commonsense Quotes

“We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from our law courts as it is from our heads, we delight in trampling it underfoot, and that is what makes our judicial sentences such masterpieces, since (although commonsense never presides in them) those sentences are carried out with as much firmness as if people knew what they actually meant.”

“When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.”

“Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.”

“Gathering eggs is commonsense”

“Commonsense will never come from following your heart”

“I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.”

“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”

“The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense”

“The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.”