Sense Quotes

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

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

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

The Bible is common-sense inspired.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor, a sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

When humor go's, there go's civilization.

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.