Sense Quotes

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

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.

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.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense

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

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.