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Quotes About Sense

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
~ Ayn Rand
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
~ Wilhelm Reich
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
~ Anthony Burgess
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
~ M. William Phelps
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
~ William Wycherley
Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!
~ David Brin
We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second
~ Sunday Adelaja
I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
~ Richard Baxter
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
~ Harry S. Truman
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
~ Agnes Repplier
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
~ Francis Bacon
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities.
~ Debasish Mridha
It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.
~ Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is, insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps, all Crosswords have a solution, and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense.
~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
~ Thomas More
Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.
~ John Bellamy Foster
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
~ A. E. Housman
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.
~ Sting