Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
Scarlett: [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.
Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.
The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
