Rene Descartes Quotes About Common Sense

Quotes about: Common Sense

• Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Common Sense, Needs

  "Discourse on the Method". Treatise by René Descartes, Pt. 1, 1637.

• Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

  Rene Descartes

  Humorous, Men, Common Sense

  Attributed to Rene Descartes in Ian Glynn "An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind" (p. 7), 2003.

• Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

  Rene Descartes

  Respect, Thinking, Common Sense

• Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Common Sense, World

• Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Common Sense, Desire

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