Good sense Quotes · Page 2

“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,…

— Iain Pears

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

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion…

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Jonathon Porritt

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors…

— Thomas Jefferson

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

— Moses ibn Ezra

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was…

— Frederic William Maitland

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

— Danny McBride

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

— PJ Harvey

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism…

— Horace Walpole

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama

— William J. Clinton

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

— Joseph Chenier

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if…

— Cesar Pelli

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

— Al Franken

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

— Fred Schneider

I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of…

— Nathan Adrian

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

— Winston Churchill

[Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of…

— Pope Francis

Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication…

— Ennio Flaiano

when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking…

— Helen Eustis

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

— Katsuya Okada

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,…

— Horace Walpole

I actually didn't even think about "Josie and the Pussycats" . I was like, "Oh yeah we kind of took some shots…

— Deborah Kaplan

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

— William E. Gladstone

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me…

— Brad Thor