Sense Quotes

Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

I hang out with the nerdy people they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

Common sense needs to be more common.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.