Quotes About Sense

Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Leibniz's most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains perhaps the central question of all science.

So even the word "save" is being used in a sense that is grotesquely misleading—"destroy one version, save another" would be more accurate.

Secondly, that Leibniz's most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains perhaps the central question of all science.

Rome entirely. The dumb beast already sensed his fear and didn't know what to do except be frightened as well. Run, Ferenc

I mean, why waste time in sleeping?" She laughed, a little shrilly. "Just doesn't make sense.

Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?

Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

Harley Race was eloquent in his moves - everything made sense, like a hand in a glove.

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.

I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'