Body Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

— Joseph Chenier

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from…

— Ralph Cudworth

“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense . And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning:…

— David Abram

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

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day…

— John Ciardi

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

“Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of humbleness without…

— Erik Pevernagie

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble…

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld