Sense Quotes - page 10

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time. (Sylvester Stallone)
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. View quote
Carl Jung
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. View quote
Sarah Palin
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. View quote
Helen Rowland
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. View quote
Frances Wright
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. View quote
Denis Diderot
... It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. View quote
George Steiner
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it. (Nick Bostrom)
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Miss C. F. Forbes, (18171911). View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing useless to men of sense. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. View quote
Eric Bogosian
High politic is only common sense applied to great things. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. View quote
David D. Burns
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense... View quote
David Deutsch
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. View quote
Pablo Picasso