Sense Quotes

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Age, Common, Eighteen

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emotional, Win, Cannot

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

Life, Today, Human

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Made, Gun, Cold

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney

Faith, Great, Control

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama

Insecurity, Deep, Results

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Greatest, Human

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Humor, Moving, Different

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Success, Work, Hard

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer

Nothing, Control, Why

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi

Humor, Long, Committed

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama

Respect, Others, Practice

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

Humor, Person, Road

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Truth, Wonder, Stranger

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

Forgive, Talk, Nonsense

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

Government, End, Big

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Truth, Why, After

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

Life, Humor, Good

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Great, Justice, Until

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai Lama

Today, Together, Different

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

Humor, Woman, Same

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

Fear, Sometimes, Himself

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, Die, Regrets

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Greatest, Wanted, Needed

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Education, Times, Common

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
Goran Persson

Humanity, Another, Word

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

Change, Dance, Move

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