Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

I think a common sense approach that provides health care coverage to all Americans is the best way forward.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

It's common sense. Here's a problem, here's a solution. What will it manifest to? This drives me every day.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Common sense often makes a good law.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

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