Sense Quotes

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them. I enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part.

Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

Common sense is not too common.

If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only medium that's allowed me to flirt with a sense of self-worth, with joy and comfort.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.