Sense Quotes

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...

~ Marcel Proust

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

~ Gail Carriger

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

~ H.l. Mencken

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

~ Margaret Atwood

Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

~ Suzy Kassem

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson]An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its lucidity and moderation, its wit and wisdom. It may now seem old-fashioned, but during those confused alarms of struggle and fight between the ignorant armies of left and right, thousands of readers must have taken inspiration from Richard Robinson's rational defence of rationalism.It is a pity that it is now out of print, when there is still so much nonsense and so little sense in the world.

~ Nicolas Walter

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

~ Dean Ornish

Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I --- He held up his hands. It's no problem. And I didn't mean to be pushy. But i've seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world bette because they only see the worst in it. There was still something about the tone of his voice and his features that made me feel like I knew him. I know what you mean. I shook my head. I don't want to be like that. But I get so angry. Sometimes I feel like I know too much, or that I've done things I can't make right, and it just hovers over me. And when I see things happen that shouldn't... You don't know what to do with yourself. Exactly. He nodded. Well, I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better. I laughed. That doesn't make sense.He stood. You just think about it a little.

~ Kiera Cass

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

~ Peter Cameron

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 everyone’s heart you will find your home to sleep there forever and feel the heaven.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist.

~ Felix Wantang

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

~ N.d. Wilson

Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking.

~ Jasz Gill

Acceptance is the sense of belonging.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable, for they are void of reason and common sense.

~ Suzy Kassem

Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

~ Jane Austen

Non sense discussions, have you ever thought that most discussions which you have are useless, pointess?? It's true and that's why I never go out.

~ Deyth Banger

Then one day a thought clicked my mind... and even theweirdest event in the past start Making complete sense...

~ Shivangi Lavaniya

He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.

~ Michael Thomas Ford

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

~ Rebecca Goldstein

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.

~ Hermann Hesse

Sense isn’t democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sense isn’t democratic. A senseless opinion that’s advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

~ A Gentlemen

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue. Ringing twice may imply a warning that trouble is on the way or an appeal to make the coast clear. Not all mailmen, though, will ring twice and await an eye-catching Lana Turner, whom they can whisper: With my brains and your looks, we could go places.” (The postman always rings twice)

~ Erik Pevernagie

But the nightmare was a strange comfort to me; in it, I found a sense of escape, and were it possible to go live in that nightmare, I would have, bizzare though that may sound.

~ M.d. Elster

But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

~ Zadie Smith

You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

~ Lauren Oliver

Cats cant speak, that's common sense.-Yoruichi

~ Tite Kubo

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

~ Debasish Mridha

In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.

~ Markus Zusak

Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.

~ Mango Wodzak

If you were an animal, what kind would it be?A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.

~ Aline Templeton

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.

~ Enid Blyton