Sense Quotes

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Common sense is very uncommon.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.

One day it'll all make sense.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.