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Sense Quotes by Annie Dillard
- If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
- There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true…
- It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge…
- Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
- The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that…
- It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a…
- The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do…
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden