Sense Quotes - page 12

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. View quote
Isabel Allende
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. View quote
Franz Kafka
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor maintain it keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. View quote
An Wang
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. View quote
Marc Chagall
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Bai's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. View quote
Albert Einstein
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. View quote
Albert Einstein
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. (Albert Einstein)
Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. View quote
Albert Einstein
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that. View quote
Salman Khan
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. View quote
Martin Luther
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. View quote
Gerald Ford
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense. View quote
John Ralston Saul
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect. View quote
Paul
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth. (Michael Morpurgo)
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. View quote
Melody Beattie
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. View quote
Norton Juster
Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. View quote
Penelope Lively