Sense Quotes

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

If there were a truly existent I, It would make sense to be afraid of certain things; But, since there is no truly existent I, Who is there to be afraid?

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

The American dream only makes sense if you're sleeping.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.