| "Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and ackground-color:#e6eff8">inexorable limits of life, a sense, ackground-color:#e6eff8">in a word, of tragedy. and we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "a news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are ackground-color:#e6eff8">interested ackground-color:#e6eff8">in. That's journalism." »Burton Rascoe |
| "all our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meanackground-color:#e6eff8">ing only ackground-color:#e6eff8">in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our mackground-color:#e6eff8">inds they are thus ackground-color:#e6eff8">in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part ackground-color:#e6eff8">investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must ackground-color:#e6eff8">investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein |
| "I sometimes thackground-color:#e6eff8">ink that the savackground-color:#e6eff8">ing grace of america lies ackground-color:#e6eff8">in the fact that the overwhelmackground-color:#e6eff8">ing majority of americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "I have a fackground-color:#e6eff8">ine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor." »Edward Albee |
| "Without a sense of carackground-color:#e6eff8">ing, there can be no sense of community." »Anthony D'Angelo |
| "It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." »Ian J. Davenport |
| "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifestackground-color:#e6eff8">ing itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only ackground-color:#e6eff8">in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feelackground-color:#e6eff8">ing, is at the center of true religiousness. ackground-color:#e6eff8">in this sense, and ackground-color:#e6eff8">in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." »Albert Einstein |
| "Science is nothackground-color:#e6eff8">ing but traackground-color:#e6eff8">ined and organized common sense, differackground-color:#e6eff8">ing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner ackground-color:#e6eff8">in which a savage wields his club." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Common sense is the best sense I know of." »Lord Chesterfield |
| "It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charmackground-color:#e6eff8">ing little clothy box of the thackground-color:#e6eff8">ing, the smell of the glue, even the prackground-color:#e6eff8">int, which has its own beauty. But there's somethackground-color:#e6eff8">ing about the sensation of ackground-color:#e6eff8">ink on paper that is ackground-color:#e6eff8">in some sense a thackground-color:#e6eff8">ing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of beackground-color:#e6eff8">ing just another passackground-color:#e6eff8">ing electronic wriggle." »John Updike |
| "Poetry is certaackground-color:#e6eff8">inly somethackground-color:#e6eff8">ing more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Never let your sense of morals get ackground-color:#e6eff8">in the way of doackground-color:#e6eff8">ing what's right." »Isaac Asimov |
| "It can't be Nature, for it is not sense." »Charles Churchill |
| "One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." »Larry Gelbart |
| "If you don't have common sense you're doomed" »Johnny Wowk |
| "There is nobody so irritatackground-color:#e6eff8">ing as somebody with less ackground-color:#e6eff8">intelligence and more sense than we have." »Don Herold |
| "Unless you love someone, nothackground-color:#e6eff8">ing else makes any sense." »e e cummings |
| "If you don't have common sense you're doomed" »Johnny Wowk |
| "There is no sense ackground-color:#e6eff8">in cryackground-color:#e6eff8">ing over spilt milk." »Sophocles |
| "No one becomes forty without ackground-color:#e6eff8">incredulity and a sense of outrage." »Clifford Bax |
| "The more I live, the more I thackground-color:#e6eff8">ink that humor is the savackground-color:#e6eff8">ing sense." »Jacob August Riis |
| "Righteous people have no sense of humor." »Bertolt Brecht |
| "any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here." »Harry S Truman |
| "The freethackground-color:#e6eff8">inkackground-color:#e6eff8">ing of one age is the common sense of the next." »Matthew Arnold |
| "Nothackground-color:#e6eff8">ing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has" »Rene Descartes |
| "Sometimes when learnackground-color:#e6eff8">ing comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away." »Richard Bach |
| "I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it." »Eden Phillpotts |
| "Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited." »George Santayana |
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