“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”– Samuel Taylor Coleridge Related Quotes “As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free it’s simply because of the experiences that I’ve had, and the wisdom I’ve accumulated from that time.”– Mary Chapin Carpenter “Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”– Anatole France “It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”– William Ralph Inge