Quotes About Sense

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

A Minneapolis company has come out with a credit card size shotgun that fits in your wallet. The inventor says he invented it to give people a sense of security. Oh yeah, what makes you feel more secure than sitting on shotgun? Now how does this work? What's the first thing a thief steals? Your wallet, oh, now he's got your gun too!

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Some feel the love; some understand it, and some sense it; but no matter what you do, love is always there if you search for it, and deep inside everyones heart you will find your home to sleep there forever and feel the heaven.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Trying to make sense of evil will only give you a headache. Evil is for evil's sake, period. Its only goal is chaos and destruction.

I have no dispute with any man concerning morals, but only concerning the word of truth. In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word. He who thinks otherwise of me, or has taken in my words in another sense, does not think rightly, and has not taken in the truth.

A? fi lini?tit dac? a? fi nebun, lumea ar avea mai mult sens.

Faye laughed as her naive belief that the world ever made sense, but what better definition of a scientist could there be than 'a person looking for a way to make sense of the world'?

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.

WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

foundation of morality is to ... give up pretending to believe that or which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about this beyond the possibilities of knowledge." So wrote Thomas Henry Huxley, who thought-in the tradition of writers and philosophers like David Hume and Thomas Paine-that we have a moral duty to distinguish sense from nonsense.

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

It was a familiar feeling. This feeling of being incomplete in just about every sense. An unfinished jigsaw of a human. Incomplete living and incomplete dying.