Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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.
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
