Sense Quotes - page 9

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense. (Benjamin Spock)
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. View quote
Jesse Ventura
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
There was an omnipresent sense of crisis. View quote
Fritz Leiber
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them. View quote
Michael Chabon
In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make By loving others, but across most it sweeps, As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. View quote
Philip Larkin
Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond today. View quote
Thomas Gray
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. View quote
William Cowper
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . View quote
Walter Lippmann
The worst speak something good if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Patience. View quote
George Herbert
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. (Douglas Coupland)
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. View quote
A. E. Housman
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made. View quote
Frank Knight
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. View quote
Frank Knight
Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs - and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. View quote
Václav Havel
Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging! View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. View quote
Zig Ziglar
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is. (Niall Ferguson)
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world. View quote
Natalie Portman
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. View quote
Helen Keller
It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. View quote
Helen Keller