Quotes About Sense

when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Pea had just sense enough to fear Comanches—that didn't require an abundance of sense. Mexican bandits did not impress him.

How long can a household's slumber be expected to hold with a stranger in its midst? Won't someone soon sense a breath that does not belong? The tread of a foot too heavy, too light, on a creaking board? Won't a dream veer off its course and into danger?

I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws)

Cattle did not have to be led to water. They came eagerly to the trough and drank while Almanzo pumped, then they hurried back to the warm barns, and each went to its own place. Each cow turned into her own stall and put her head between her own stanchions. They never made a mistake. Whether this was because they had more sense than horses, or because they had so little sense that they did everything by habit, Father did not know.

I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura regarding the homestead laws)

But one thing I'd learned in therapy was that just because a feeling made no sense didn't make you stop feeling it.

My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

Then Ms. Conners blows her whistle to stop and explain the retarded scoring system in tennis where the numbers don't make sense and love doesn't count for anything.

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, "Aha. Of course. That's right."

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he's having a grand old time punking the planet.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.