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Sense Quotes


"any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and"

Full 'James Reston' Quote   Source: James Reston
"to open all the ears - which we call senses - of a man, so that he can..."

Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote   Source: William Gilmore Simms
"...Cancer won?t bestow a sense of humor on someone who doesn?t have it, but..."

Full 'Betty Rollin' Quote   Source: Betty Rollin
"Baby: A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Full 'Ronald Knox' Quote   Source: Ronald Knox
"more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the..."

Full 'Billy Graham' Quote   Source: Billy Graham
"the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

Full 'Anna Jameson' Quote   Source: Anna Jameson
""That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."..."

Full 'Stephen Crane' Quote   Source: Stephen Crane
"worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has..."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God."

Full 'Anne Rice' Quote   Source: Anne Rice
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted"

Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote   Source: Henry Ward Beecher
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with..."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to..."

Full 'Jessamyn West' Quote   Source: Jessamyn West
"our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the..."

Full 'George Moore' Quote   Source: George Moore
"a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty...."

Full 'Anton Chekhov' Quote   Source: Anton Chekhov
"attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most..."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote   Source: Thomas Huxley
"works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by..."

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"not invent human rights. In a very real sense. . . human rights invented"

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe..."

Full 'John Updike' Quote   Source: John Updike
"valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense...."

Full 'Vernon Howard' Quote   Source: Vernon Howard
"an irrational premise.... It makes no sense, but everything that follows..."

Full 'Jane Haddam' Quote   Source: Jane Haddam
"compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?..."

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"velvety- smooth fantasies that envelop the senses and stir the passions...."

Full 'Judith Olney' Quote   Source: Judith Olney
"Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason."

Full 'Mikhail Bakunin' Quote   Source: Mikhail Bakunin
"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It..."

Full 'Billy Graham' Quote   Source: Billy Graham
"Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and..."

Full 'Paul Goodman' Quote   Source: Paul Goodman
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different..."

Full 'Clive James' Quote   Source: Clive James
"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not"

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."

Full 'Edgar Watson Howe' Quote   Source: Edgar Watson Howe
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Full 'Victor Hugo' Quote   Source: Victor Hugo
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as"

Full 'Josh Billings' Quote   Source: Josh Billings
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as"

Full 'Henry Wheeler Shaw' Quote   Source: Henry Wheeler Shaw
"Common Sense is the medicine of master workman."

Full 'Peter Latham' Quote   Source: Peter Latham
"Common sense is very uncommon."

Full 'Horace Greeley' Quote   Source: Horace Greeley
"tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self...."

Full 'Erich Fromm' Quote   Source: Erich Fromm
"positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success,..."

Full 'John Keats' Quote   Source: John Keats
"to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion."

Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote   Source: Heinrich Heine
"himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult..."

Full 'Rene Descartes' Quote   Source: Rene Descartes
"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall..."

Full 'Rachel Carson' Quote   Source: Rachel Carson
"From my dad I think I got a great sense of humor about life and sort of an..."

Full 'Dennis Quaid' Quote   Source: Dennis Quaid
"things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more..."

Full 'Lauren Bacall' Quote   Source: Lauren Bacall
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that"

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are..."

Full 'Nancy Lopez' Quote   Source: Nancy Lopez
"up on a farm you definitely get a real sense of the cycle of life and there..."

Full 'Holly Hunter' Quote   Source: Holly Hunter
"being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be..."

Full 'Sarah Bernhardt' Quote   Source: Sarah Bernhardt
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."

Full 'W C Fields' Quote   Source: W C Fields
"adore the buzz with acting. There is a sense of instant gratification when..."

Full 'Jerry Hall' Quote   Source: Jerry Hall
"the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is..."

Full 'Pablo Casals' Quote   Source: Pablo Casals
"by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation...."

Full 'Hillary Rodham Clinton' Quote   Source: Hillary Rodham Clinton
"in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor...."

Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote   Source: William Gilmore Simms
"the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has..."

Full 'Galileo' Quote   Source: Galileo
"do a lot more than educate a person's senses."

Full 'Grace Paley' Quote   Source: Grace Paley
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."

Full 'Edward Albee' Quote   Source: Edward Albee
"the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold,..."

Full 'Millicent Fenwick' Quote   Source: Millicent Fenwick
"have said. It is time for us to regain a sense of action in the service of..."

Full 'Jacques Chirac' Quote   Source: Jacques Chirac
"adhere to a motto that makes a bit of sense to me and that is: "That..."

Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote   Source: Sandra Bullock
"I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not..."

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."

Full 'William Thackery' Quote   Source: William Thackery
"anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of..."

Full 'Emma Thompson' Quote   Source: Emma Thompson
"married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do,..."

Full 'Neil Diamond' Quote   Source: Neil Diamond
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to..."

Full 'Samuel Goldwyn' Quote   Source: Samuel Goldwyn
"imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice -- they all make..."

Full 'Edna Ferber' Quote   Source: Edna Ferber
"character. In Appalachia, there's a very great sense of kinship with the..."

Full 'Sharyn Mccrumb' Quote   Source: Sharyn Mccrumb
"lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process...."

Full 'Barack Obama' Quote   Source: Barack Obama
"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of..."

Full 'Sally Field' Quote   Source: Sally Field
"Reaching under the fence, as I try to make sense... in the ruins......"

Full 'Melissa Etheridge' Quote   Source: Melissa Etheridge
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the..."

Full 'Rachel Carson' Quote   Source: Rachel Carson
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."

Full 'Sam Rayburn' Quote   Source: Sam Rayburn
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."

Full 'Robert Musil' Quote   Source: Robert Musil
"If we study processes of sense perception, thinking, learning, cognition,..."

Full 'Thom Thompson' Quote   Source: Thom Thompson
"in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the..."

Full 'Margaret Mead' Quote   Source: Margaret Mead
"nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you..."

Full 'Timothy Leary' Quote   Source: Timothy Leary
"season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are..."

Full 'George Eliot' Quote   Source: George Eliot
"guess I've got some shoes to fill in that sense of it -- following A.J.,..."

Full 'Brady Quinn' Quote   Source: Brady Quinn
"to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to..."

Full 'Horace Walpole' Quote   Source: Horace Walpole
"In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any..."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to..."

Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote   Source: Alfred Kazin
"In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too..."

Full 'Dorothy Day' Quote   Source: Dorothy Day
"In its larger sense as a philosophy of life, we have generally associated..."

Full 'John King Fairbank' Quote   Source: John King Fairbank
"In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who..."

Full 'Florence King' Quote   Source: Florence King
"a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a..."

Full 'Ansel Adams' Quote   Source: Ansel Adams
"greater one's science, the deeper the sense of mystery."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific"

Full 'Charles Lindbergh' Quote   Source: Charles Lindbergh
"strong, and invigorating; it fills my senses. Lick annd lick again. Hair..."

Full 'Unknown Source' Quote   Source: Unknown Source
"contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility...."

Full 'Rachel Carson' Quote   Source: Rachel Carson
"exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it...."

Full 'Nelson A Rockefeller' Quote   Source: Nelson A Rockefeller
"not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor...."

Full 'Max Eastman' Quote   Source: Max Eastman
"religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty...."

Full 'Ilka Chase' Quote   Source: Ilka Chase
"It just lacks common sense that you would work for 6 months for no money!"

Full 'Judge Judy' Quote   Source: Judge Judy
"spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began..."

Full 'Gloria Naylor' Quote   Source: Gloria Naylor
"right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both."

Full 'Jeannette Rankin' Quote   Source: Jeannette Rankin
"seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time."

Full 'Titus Livy' Quote   Source: Titus Livy
"except the observation that they have no sense of humor...."

Full 'Steve Allen' Quote   Source: Steve Allen
"Money is like a sixth sense with- out which you cannot make a complete use"

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to"

Full 'Dean Acheson' Quote   Source: Dean Acheson
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Full 'Isaac Asimov' Quote   Source: Isaac Asimov
"women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've..."

Full 'Anna Quindlen' Quote   Source: Anna Quindlen
"and the clergy than reason and common sense...."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"words that equal what we are given by the senses...."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor..."

Full 'Alice James' Quote   Source: Alice James
"as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather..."

Full 'Edward Albee' Quote   Source: Edward Albee
"People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot..."

Full 'Dorothy Day' Quote   Source: Dorothy Day
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their"

Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote   Source: Thomas Mann
"Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more..."

Full 'Osho' Quote   Source: Osho
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

Full 'William Osler' Quote   Source: William Osler
"deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and..."

Full 'H. Ross Perot' Quote   Source: H. Ross Perot
"personal reason, and you don't have a sense of it being received by anyone...."

Full 'James Taylor' Quote   Source: James Taylor
"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity..."

Full 'David Sarnoff' Quote   Source: David Sarnoff
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Full 'Euripides' Quote   Source: Euripides
"cattle. More money and he will have no sense of parental or individual..."

Full 'Gary Player' Quote   Source: Gary Player
"books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are..."

Full 'Sir Arthur Keith' Quote   Source: Sir Arthur Keith
"concentration camp. And I've never lost that sense. It was not fate--not,..."

Full 'Maurice Sendak' Quote   Source: Maurice Sendak
"America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to..."

Full 'George Gallup' Quote   Source: George Gallup
"cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence..."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."

Full 'Tom Clancy' Quote   Source: Tom Clancy
"freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

Full 'Matthew Arnold' Quote   Source: Matthew Arnold
"have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each..."

Full 'Meryl Streep' Quote   Source: Meryl Streep
"heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people..."

Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Bowen
"reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your..."

Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote   Source: Jim Morrison
"life. But in the truest and most profound sense, it is an escape not from..."

Full 'James Ramsey Ullman' Quote   Source: James Ramsey Ullman
"pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between"

Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote   Source: Carl Gustav Jung
"pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between"

Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote   Source: Carl Gustav Jung
"that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee..."

Full 'David Mamet' Quote   Source: David Mamet
"always been greater than the power of sense."

Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote   Source: Joseph Conrad
"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on"

Full 'Lou Holtz' Quote   Source: Lou Holtz
"The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain...."

Full 'Annie Dillard' Quote   Source: Annie Dillard
"wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."

Full 'William Ralph Inge' Quote   Source: William Ralph Inge
"need of less religion and more common sense."

Full 'Llewelyn Powys' Quote   Source: Llewelyn Powys
"of reason to match each error of the senses."

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly..."

Full 'Sinclair Lewis' Quote   Source: Sinclair Lewis
"detecting it through the radar-net of our senses...."

Full 'Diane Ackerman' Quote   Source: Diane Ackerman
"There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves...."

Full 'Eric Zorn' Quote   Source: Eric Zorn
"and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not..."

Full 'Dorothy Uhnak' Quote   Source: Dorothy Uhnak
"To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history."

Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote   Source: Alfred Kazin
"intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers..."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"We live on the leash of our sense"

Full 'Diane Ackerman' Quote   Source: Diane Ackerman
"cozy foods that promote an extraordinary sense of well-being and search out..."

Full 'Judith Olney' Quote   Source: Judith Olney
"What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!"

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning...."

Full 'Barbara De Angelis' Quote   Source: Barbara De Angelis
"demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in..."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by..."

Full 'Anna Jameson' Quote   Source: Anna Jameson
"but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if..."

Full 'David Sarnoff' Quote   Source: David Sarnoff
"himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor...."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point...."

Full 'Maria Callas' Quote   Source: Maria Callas
"When something doesn't make sense, it's usually because it's not true, you"

Full 'Judge Judy' Quote   Source: Judge Judy
"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation."

Full 'Anne Lamott' Quote   Source: Anne Lamott
"riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have..."

Full 'Lech Walesa' Quote   Source: Lech Walesa