Sense Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Science ... is organized common sense.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Taste is the common sense of genius.