The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.