Sense Quotes

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

A team that is always fun with witty sense of humor. We help each other around a lot and help push each other to be better

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

Windows isn't supposed to make sense, it's supposed to make money.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.