Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

I’ve always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other’s name!

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

If the landscape changes, then I don’t know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

If it makes you happy, it doesn’t have to make sense to others

What we worry about is actually the potential negative aspects of wearing a mask, where people are not protecting their eyes, or other aspects of where the virus could enter your body, and that gives you a false sense of confidence.

You can’t beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bulls***.

I wasn’t a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn’t make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.

The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice, and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely.

I’ve never written a speech. I can’t read a speech. It’s kind of give-and-take. You have to sense the people you’re talking to. You have to respond to what they hear.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

We sense love, but we don’t believe in it. We save our faith for fear. But ultimately, there is a quiet voice in each of us that longs for something better.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

I love that when I breathe you in you smell like cake batter. And I love that you have this insane way of talking in circles that makes perfect sense.

TV show’s really quick. You’re in, you’re out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it’s really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He’s one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he’d say the same. Actually, he did.

A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.

In the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemption are one.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Sense is never common.

All you young wild girls You make a mess of me

I’ve always had a sense of responsibility, whether I’ve been captain or not. But I must say that I’m both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that’s score goals and help my team win.

I won’t ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I’ll do it. But it will be on my terms.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

I’m not religious in any sense

A goal will set your process of achievement in the right direction.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‘we’ rather than the ‘I.’

You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

You either make sense or you make money.

His sense of service, intellectual curiosity and capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation – were all irrepressible. That mischievous, enquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.

My philosophy is: If you can’t have fun, there’s no sense in doing it.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out…

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better. Verbiage is to devotion as chaff to the wheat.

Authentic men aren’t afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they’re sad, admit it when they’re wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

For better to come, good must stand aside

As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims; but as an artist, he is a man in a higher sense. He is a ‘collective man’—one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art – perfection.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

A person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. ‘You are quite right to do that,’ he murmured. ‘Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul

We’ve always had a very weird, like, Addams Family sense of humor. My mom’s fabulous, but I’ve never seen her in anything but black.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscience and his sense of duty.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.

I’ve always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair.

And yet not every sense of what’s good and right can be trusted, for what else is war but two sides going to battle over what each thinks is right?

I personally feel like, if you’re watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it’s really like.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

So, a pop art should be flattering, in the sense that it’s a reflection of a positive part of the person’s personality

Sun and ocean blue, their magnificence, it don’t make sense to you.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

We experience the universe as separate from ourselves because of the optical delusion of our senses.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Life ain’t worth living if you’re not taking risks

Leaders are persuing a passion toward a purpose that gives them a sense of destiny.

We have a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man

Whatever you are, be a good one

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.