common sense

Noun

Meaning

See Common sense, under Sense.

Source: Webster's dictionary

common-sense

good sense mother wit horse sense sense gumption native wit reason prudence understanding mind brain intelligence logic perception discrimination

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fandango derangement mania malarkey illusion divergence

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logic nous road sense

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

The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Henry Ward Beecher

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. Persian Proverb

There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense. Bantu Proverb

Common sense ain't common. English Proverb