The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the…

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows…

— Lin Yutang

I deal with students every day - from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I've noticed that the Chinese students…

— Ai Weiwei

“Language needs creativity and imagination to work, if not it will seem and sound stupid with its lack of sense and meaning”

— Kimberly Loskov

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“If your critics lack sense, you are steps ahead of them. If you have sense, you are miles ahead of them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

— Wayne Thiebaud

“Life is hard, even more so for those who lack a sense of humor.”

— A.J. Garces

“Those who lack a sense of humor are destined to be life's hacked up hairballs.”

— S.A. Garcia

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

— David Bornstein

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish…

— Grant Morrison

“I used to think every fool was out of his senses, but now I see that lack of sense is a man's normal state,…

— Anton Chekhov

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

— Emmet Fox

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

— Terence McKenna

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

— Laozi