Sense Quotes

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.

The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.