Good Sense Quotes - Page 11

• It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

  Aristotle

  Easier, Ability

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.4

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Length, Prove It

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophical, Passion, Men

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30”, p.449

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• I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

  William Mapother

  Thinking, Years, Stories

  "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

  Danny Pino

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• Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

  Charles Perrault

  Queens, Son, Long

  The Brothers Grimm, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Afanasiev, J. Macgowan, Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and many others “Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know”, Slavamax BVBA

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• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

  William Temple

  Communication, Talking, Next

  Sir William Temple (1720). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679”, p.311

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• Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.

  Robert Orben

  Laughing, Competition, Sense Of Humor

  "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to The White House - The one-laugh-one-vote theory has candidates cracking wise". Kevin Merida, The Dallas Morning News, February 15, 1988.

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Wise, Hurt, Opponents

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• I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Kids

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• I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Want

  Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

  E. W. Howe

  Fear, Men, Scared

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• I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Intelligent, People

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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• Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

  Hesiod

  Sweet, Talking, Fascination

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• To give requires good sense.

  Ovid

  Inspiring, Giving, Charity

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• Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s
  "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Love Is, Thinking

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• Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Land, Exploration

  Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster

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• The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

  Frederic Harrison

  Cute, Simple, Men

  Frederic Harrison (1975). “Order and Progress”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Speech, Power Of Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligence, Mediocre, Sentiments

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

  Marquis de Sade

  Eye, Punishment, Humanity

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Self, Issues

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.111, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.

  John Quincy Adams

  Sweet, Powerful, Blessed

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

  Joseph Chenier

  Intelligence, Genius, Taste

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