Quotes About Sense

And yet, deep inside herself, a sense of injustice, of being defrauded, had begun to burn in Connie. The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in whom it is aroused.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

Concepts have meaning only if we can point to objects to which they refer and to the rules by which they are assigned to these objects. In other words, for a concept to make sense you need an operational definition of it, one that describes how you would observe the concept in operation.

bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

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They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. Noble actions are the substance of life; good sayings its ornament and guide.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

She was a decent storyteller, but a crap liar, for all the sense that made.

I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.

You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Anyone who expects you to has no sense of the arts.

I'd never had a mind for math. I simply couldn't hold the formulas and numbers in my head. It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.

The physician nodded as if that had told him something, although Don suspected it was just a thing done mechanically. You hear enough stuff you don't understand, maybe you just start nodding. Oh, sure, I got you. Makes perfect sense.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

95 per cent of economics is common sense made complicated

Ethnicity and morality can of course combine, giving the sense that "we" are "good" and "they" are "bad.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

To disobey an order is, I know, unforgivable, but the determination to save my comrades is stronger than my sense of duty.