339 Quotes About Sense

If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the others. By making friends with the others, we are able to make friends with ourselves. At that moment, we can sense how everything falls into place. ( “ Steps in the unknown" )

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.

A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)

Nothing is more certain than that this trope [metaphor], when temperately and appositely used, serves to add light to the expression and energy to the sentiment. On the contrary, when vaguely and intemperately used, nothing can serve more effectually to cloud the sense, where there is sense, and by consequence to conceal the defect, where there is no sense to show.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.