Sense Quotes

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.