Sense Quotes - page 4

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. (Jimmy Carter)
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. View quote
George Santayana
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. View quote
Julie Taymor
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. View quote
James Baldwin
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. View quote
John Searle
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. (Horace Walpole)
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job. View quote
Oswald Mosley
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. View quote
John Cheever
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. (Bertrand Russell)
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. View quote
W. C. Fields
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. View quote
E. B. White
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. View quote
Václav Havel