Sense Quotes

It's not all about beauty! It's also about a sense of humor.

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

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

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.

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

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

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

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.

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

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

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

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 calculation applied to life.

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.

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

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

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

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

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?

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

I have a funny sense of humor. If I was a comedian and I was up on stage, people would think that's funny, because I'm a funny comedian. I'm an entertainer.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.