Making Sense Quotes

What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.

~ Debasish Mridha

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

~ Oscar Wilde

At work here is that powerful WYSIATI (what you see is all there is) rule. You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

~ Daniel Kahneman