Sense Quotes - page 3

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean. (Friedrich Schlegel)
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. View quote
David Hockney
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. View quote
Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. View quote
Robert Frost
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. View quote
John Ruskin
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. View quote
Steve Ballmer
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. (George S. Patton)
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. View quote
Henry Miller
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. View quote
Thom Yorke
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." View quote
Joseph Addison
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. (Joseph Addison)
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. View quote
Stanley Milgram
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. View quote
Timothy Leary
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. View quote
John Venn
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. View quote
Dale Carnegie