Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.