| "Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, 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 interested in. That's journalism." »Burton Rascoe |
| "All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus 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 investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein |
| "I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor." »Edward Albee |
| "Without a sense of caring, 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, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." »Albert Einstein |
| "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing 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 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 charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, 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 being just another passing electronic wriggle." »John Updike |
| "Poetry is certainly something 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 |
| "One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." »Larry Gelbart |
| "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." »Isaac Asimov |
| "It can't be Nature, for it is not sense." »Charles Churchill |
| "Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense." »e e cummings |
| "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." »Don Herold |
| "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 |
| "Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has" »Rene Descartes |
| "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next." »Matthew Arnold |
| "No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage." »Clifford Bax |
| "There is no sense in crying over spilt milk." »Sophocles |
| "Righteous people have no sense of humor." »Bertolt Brecht |
| "Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away." »Richard Bach |
| "The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense." »Jacob August Riis |
| "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." »Charlie McCarthy |
| "Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people." »Joe Moore |
| "Fools admire, but men of sense approve." »Alexander Pope |
| "Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe." »Euripides |
| "A sense of share is not a bad moral compass." »Colin |
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