Good sense Quotes · Page 4

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

— Sydney Smith

The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

— Katsuya Okada

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There are times when it is wiser to not let your good courage overrule your good sense.

— Anonymous

“It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.”

— Emily M. Danforth

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

— Publilius Syrus

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

— Danny McBride

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a…

— David Hume

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try…

— Emily Perkins

“To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”

— Plotinus

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

— Thomas Jefferson

“It's good common sense, your grace.' Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja.”

— Jennifer Fallon

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

— Paloma Faith

“positioning Medina Station as the logical location for a fledgling League of Planets–type government, he at least had the good sense not…

— James S.A. Corey

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must…

— Romain Rolland

I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around…

— Saina Nehwal

I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years… I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the…

— Jimmy Wales

“...despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to…

— Danny Masterson

Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is,…

— Donald Davidson

I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need…

— Z'EV

Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in…

— Tom Peters

It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the…

— Alfred Binet

Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.…

— Jonathon Porritt

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

— Shawn Kemp

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

— Theodore Parker

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

— John Quincy Adams

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

— Joseph Joubert

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

— Michael Jackson

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

People with a good sense of humor have a better sense of life.

— Ash Sweeney

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

— Marilyn French

“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.”

— G. Willow Wilson

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

— Gustave Flaubert

The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.

— Riaad Moosa

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

— Ann Radcliffe

I think young folks have a good sense of what they want to do.

— Kathleen Rubins