Good Sense Quotes - Page 5

• There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, May, Chance

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• A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

  Francois Rabelais

  Faith, Believe, Men

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• Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

  John Dryden

  Reason, Good Nature, Products

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• Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Men, Good Company

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• A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Running, Long, Degrees

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• Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Names, Receiving

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• Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Mistake, Book, Men

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• I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

  William Hogarth

  Art, Thinking, Owing

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• You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

  J. I. Packer

  Believe, Thank God, Sound

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• I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "And She's Funny, Too: A GQ&A with Mila Kunis". Interview with David Marchese, www.gq.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.

  Donald Davidson

  Philosophy, Doctrine, Would Be

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.183, Oxford University Press

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• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  William E. Gladstone

  Constitution, Parliament, British

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• Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Good Man, Sides

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2003.

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• As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

  Heather Bresch

  Perseverance, Ideas, People

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• The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".

  Daniel Burrus

  Zero, Powerful, Nice

  "Want to Save the Manufacturing Sector? It's Time to Embrace the Principles of Next Generation Manufacturing" by Daniel Burrus, bigthink.com.

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• I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.

  Mary Collyer

  Laughter, Stupid, Practice

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• Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

  Evan Harris

  Mistake, Moving, Cutting

  Evan Harris (1996). “The Quit”, Fireside

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• Giving requires good sense.
  [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

  Ovid

  Giving, Dare

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• You talk to me in parables.
  You may have known that I'm no wordy man,
  Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves
  Or fools that use them, when they want good sense;
  But honesty
  Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Needs

  William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”

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• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Silly, Opportunity, Men

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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• Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

  Moliere

  Couple, Perfect, Sobriety

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• A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Ideas, Loving Someone

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• Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Timing

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• But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Too Much, Virtue, Charm

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

  Gerard Butler

  Girl, Heart, Humour

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