Good Sense Quotes - Page 13

• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Clever, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Moon, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Children, Sun

  7 Copy quote

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

  Alexander Pope

  Heaven, Seven

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.385

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

  John Dryden

  Fountain, Perpetual

  1700 Of Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern, preface.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

  10 Copy quote

• The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Supernatural Beings, Light

  16 Copy quote

• A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Men, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Husband, Men, Wife

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 183, 1958.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

  Joseph Chenier

  Taste, Delicate

  4 Copy quote

• That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

  Philippe de Commines

  Acquire

  4 Copy quote

• We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Pet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

  Marco Arment

  Trying, Stuff, Waste

  "NY Startup Guy Marco Arment Has Had 3 Companies Sell In The Past 5 Weeks" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged."

  Tom Peters

  Stars, Caring, Talking

  4 Copy quote

• It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Errors, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would date a fan, I dont have a problem with that. I look for a good sense of humour in a girlfriend.

  Rupert Grint

  Girlfriend, Fans, Looks

  27 Copy quote

• Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

  Danny Masterson

  Hard Times, Way, Levels

  7 Copy quote

• One thing a girl has to have is a good sense of a humor. I'm a really laid back guy who can find humor in just about anything, so my girlfriend would need to be a little like that too. She doesn't have to be a big jokester, but to me finding humor in things and not taking too much too seriously is a way of enjoying life, so that is important to me.

  Logan Lerman

  Girl, Guy, Enjoy Life

  10 Copy quote

• There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Common Sense, Wife

  "Don Quixote in England: A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding, Esq".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  Horace

  Writing, Parent, Literature

  9 Copy quote

• A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Hallucinations, Injustice

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source