Quotes of: True-sense Keyword

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only be...

Andrew Motion

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

Fool's Assassin

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Benjamin Spock

The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.

Anna and the Duke

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

The Importance Of Living

My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

The Impossible Knife of Memory

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Killosophy

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Killosophy

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Killosophy

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Suffering: Making Sense of Suffering 5pk

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

The Sense of an Ending

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

The Sense of an Ending

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The Sense of an Ending

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

The Sense of an Ending

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

Saint Francis

Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean." -Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Life of Pi