Sense Quotes

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.

In an age where every decision we make must be supported by numbers and opinion polls, kindness, compassion, faith and common sense require no statistical analysis.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no doubt a most pernicious thing. The former is man's respect for which is noble and of which the great men are only an embodiment. The latter is the serf's fealty to his lord. The former is consistent with respect, but the latter is a sign of debasement. The former does not take away one's intelligence to think and independence to act. The latter makes one perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a source of positive danger to it.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

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

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.