Sense Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

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

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

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

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

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

I've got a great sense of humor.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

When you are famous, you never can be sure why somebody's being nice. You just have to develop a very good sixth sense. I call it my bullshit detector.