It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.
But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.
What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.
Those people. . . . early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington. . . can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.
Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this. "
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.