Sense Quotes

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

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

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible.

In every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise not sense; by meanness, not greatness.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

One day it'll all make sense.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

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

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

The markets were run by mathematicians and their models but they had no business sense.

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.