Common Quote by Alexander Pope

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense;…

— Alexander Pope

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make…

— David Hume

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

— Lord Chesterfield

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

— Bertrand Russell

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been…

— Paul Goodman

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

— Alexander Pope

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

— Alexander Pope

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

— Frank Stella

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

— J. I. Packer

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

— George Herbert

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

— Elizabeth Bowen