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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)
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. (Quote by - John Dryden)
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)