Sense Quotes

• So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wisdom
  • Sense
  • Fantasy

• Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Judge
  • Sense

• The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Summer

• But godhead gradually slipped away from him, leaving only a sense of election and the power, through his music, to to change landscapes, seasons, hearts.

  

  Ann Wroe
  • Change
  • Sense
  • Godhead

• Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots,” cried Henny impatiently. “A man will run ten miles from a woman with sense.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Run

• It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Sense
  • Meeting
  • Table

• It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.

  

  Gary L. Blackwood
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Player

• I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Think
  • Self
  • Concerned

• Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Connection

• If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.

  

  Damien Broderick
  • God
  • Interesting
  • Snazzy

• On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Sense
  • Directors
  • Choreograph

• Bogie had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Game

• Another huge advantage that humans have is good old common sense.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • Human
  • Sense
  • Advantage

• Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.

  

  Winston Duke
  • Sense
  • Thing
  • Knowing

• I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Sense
  • Entertainer
  • Engager

• Never lose your sense of the superficial.

  

  Alfred Harmsworth
  • Sense
  • Lose
  • Superficial

• The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Practice
  • Goal

• I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.

  

  Avi Lewis
  • Sense
  • Security
  • Losing

• It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Soul
  • Sense
  • Utterances

• Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

  

  Elizabeth Wordsworth
  • Small
  • Sense
  • Disheartened

• That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. It's what makes life fun. We don't need it to be delicious or great or all these things if we're just to survive. But it's one of those things that makes life fun, livable. And the more I submerge myself in it, the more fun I seem to have.

  

  Rene Redzepi
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Moment

• We have to give a sense of economic liberation to the masses and for that, I think the basic thing we have done or we attempted to do, in the beginning, and we have not yet completed that process, is that of land reforms. I think some of the Indian states have been successful in bringing about land reforms but to get a sensation of economic empowerment in society, even a bit of land of their own, is necessary for the common people and it has been shown by Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, which have achieved remarkable economic successes, that land reform was one basic prior thing they did.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Sense
  • Economic
  • Liberation

• To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Sense
  • Means
  • Motion

• Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sense
  • Misapply

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