Make Sense Quotes

• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Fiction

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• We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Understanding, Use

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.

  Gary A. Klein

  Data, Feelings, Important

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Chalk

  "I Watched Neil deGrasse Tyson Take On a Science Skeptic". Interview with Anthony Liversidge, gizmodo.com. January 20, 2017.

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• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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• Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.

  Sonia Choquette

  Inspirational, Bad Vibes, Giving

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Sep 26, 2011

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• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

  Piers Anthony

  Fathom, All Things

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• We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense

  Joel Osteen

  Deep Life, Happens, True Faith

  Twitter post from Nov 1, 2014

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• You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

  Rick Warren

  Faith, Christian, Godly

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jan 04, 2013

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• Everything’s a story, kid.  Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

  Jeff Daniels

  Kids, Stories, World

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• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Witty, Truth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

  Bill Watterson

  Laughing, Existentialism, Comic Strips

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

  Hilary Kornblith

  World, Categories, Projects

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Answers, Firsts, Knows

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

  Nicholas Royle

  Fun, Bored, Stories

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

  Madonna Ciccone

  Want, Break

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• Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

  Rich Mullins

  Mountain, Looks, Sometimes

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• It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

  Paul Auster

  Order, Perception, Mind

  "An Interview with Paul Auster" by Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

  Tom Hanks

  Motivation, Ignorance, Evil

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• If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Beats, Desks, Angela

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

  Glenn Beck

  World, Fantasy, Nothing Makes Sense

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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• People get so upset about lyrics, and they're probably totally cool with horror movies. That doesn't really make sense.

  Chris Reifert

  People, Upset, Horror

  "To Learn as a Listener". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. July 1, 2011.

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