Quotes About Sense

Meaningful words are called kalma. A group of meaningful words that makes a complete sense is called kalam. A collection (majmua) of ghazals by a particular poet is called a diwan.

Making sense is overrated. It's just confirming what people already think. Making new sense is more important.

And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her hours.

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

All poetry is difficult to read,—The sense of it is, anyhow.

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

The one kind of organizing activity that really engaged his interest and aroused his effort was "organizational work" in the special Bolshevik sense of personnel placement.

There is overwhelming scientific evidence on memory that shows memories are constructed by all of us and that the construction is a mixture of fact and fiction. Something similar is true for perception. Our perceptions are constructions that are a mixture of sense data processed by the brain and other data that the brain supplies to fill in the blanks.

And shall I tell you something else, papa, now that we're talking at last? It was fine. I was fine. Because what was I doing, really, that ten million other girls don't do every night, only they don't have the sense to get paid for it? That was decadent. This was business – kapitalism – and it was fine, and it was like you said, I only had one friend: myself.

Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.

Those wonderful coincidences of sound and sense between one language and another were also at work, giving each new term an alluring resonance.

A good start, a willingness—even eagerness—to work beyond the call of duty, a sense of fair play, and a recognition of opportunities before and when they arrive.

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.

And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.

Se existe um sentido de realidade, também devia haver um sentido de possibilidade.

If there is a sense of reality...then there must also be something we can call a sense of possibility... the sense of possibility could be defined outright as the ability to conceive of everything there might be just as well, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not... It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

È la realtà che risveglia le possibilità, e nulla sarebbe così assurdo come negarlo. Tuttavia, sommate o in media, quelle che restano sono sempre le stesse possibilità destinate a ripetersi, finché non arriva un uomo per il quale una cosa reale non è più importante di una solo pensata. È grazie a lui che le nuove possibilità acquistano finalmente il loro senso e la loro determinazione, ed è lui che le risveglia

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.

too often, when it comes to the subject of money, common sense is uncommon.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things;

He never had any sense of decorum Ã¢â'¬Â¦ always kissing his wife in the most unsuitable places!' (Are you sure you kiss me in suitable places, Gilbert? I'm afraid Mrs. Gibson would think the nape of the neck, for instance, most unsuitable.) 'But

The thought of her mother's expression made Valancy laugh – for she had a sense of humour nobody in her clan suspected.