Sense Quotes - page 5

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. View quote
Francis Bacon
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. View quote
Mikheil Saakashvili
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The avant-garde makes more sense to me. View quote
John Cale
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? (Dan Quayle)
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. View quote
Ronald Knox
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. View quote
Mark Twain
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' View quote
Barack Obama
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. (Winston Churchill)
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. View quote
Thomas Edison
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. View quote
Miguel Syjuco
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. View quote
Thom Mayne