Sense Quotes
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If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side. (Quote by - Jack Straw)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. (Quote by - Aristotle)
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. (Quote by - Piers Anthony)
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. (Quote by - George Washington)
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. (Quote by - Lou Holtz)
Much Madness is divinest Sense - to a discerning Eye - much Sense - the starkest Madness - (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. (Quote by - Sir William Hamilton)
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? (Quote by - William Pitt The Elder)
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche )
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. (Quote by - Henry More)
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. (Quote by - Juvenal)
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Quote by - Buddha)
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Common sense is not so common. (Quote by - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Sensible people find nothing useless. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
What thin partitions sense from thought divide. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' (Quote by - Barack Obama)
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Common sense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy. (Quote by - Glenn Beck)
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. (Quote by - Edward Young)
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. (Quote by - Edward Albee)
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
