Quotes
Quotes about Sense
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . . And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cavemen dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod-- Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey'd.
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.
I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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.
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning, Nothing shall come amiss, And we won't go home till morning.
Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
