Adult Children by Stephen Beals for August 20, 2019

Common sense may be intelligence but intelligence is not always common sense.

I always thought that common sense was that mythical 6th sense that some people claim to have, but you never actually find PROOF of…

Common sense isn’t

While common sense may be construed as a type of intelligence, IQ and common sense are frequently strangers.

Common sense ain’t very Common.

Or, as some wit put it, “Common Sense is an uncommon commodity.”

One does not need to be intelligent to possess common sense, nor the other way around. It’s the difference between Knowledge and Wisdom. Example: An Absent Minded Professor has tons of Knowledge, but little Common Sense. Conversely, A poor, uneducated parent might not have a lot of book smarts (Knowledge) but tons of common sense in dealing with their kids. (Wisdom or Common Sense)