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Quotes About Sense

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.
~ Hermann Nothnagel
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
~ John Tillotson
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.
~ Ken Kesey
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.
~ Thomas Paine
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
~ E. W. Howe
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
~ Erich Fromm
Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.
~ Brad Pitt
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
~ Mercedes Lackey
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
~ Mike Myers
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
~ Moliere
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.
~ J. H. Rush
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
~ Jay Saunders Redding
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
~ John Wilmot
For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.
~ Patrick Stump
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~ W. Somerset Maugham