Good Sense Quotes - Page 3

• Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Discovery

  "Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson (Part I "Thoughts", Chapter 2 "The Luminous Mind", p. 29), November 1994.

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• Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

  Samuel Smiles

  Issues, Common Sense, Inspired

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.8

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• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Agriculture, Kind, Excellent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She should be Honost, loving and trustworthy.

  Justin Bieber

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

  Victoria Beckham

  Real, Men, Shoes

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  Jack Kemp

  Football, Cutting, Perspective

  "Jack F. Kemp", www.nytimes.com.

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• People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  Ken Kesey

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

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• I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Editing, Cameras

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 07, 2011.

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• We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agreement, Opinion, Share

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• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Night

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• It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

  Frederick Sanger

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

  David Hume

  Learning, Men, Numbers

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.347

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• Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

  William Glasser

  Peace, War, Next

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• Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

  Al Franken

  Bob, Be Kind, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996.

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• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspiration, Matter, Nonsense

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• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Art, Textiles, Lovers

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• Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Differences, Taste

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mother, Father, May

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stupidity, Fool, Honest

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Denial, Littles

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

  Carmen Electra

  Heart, Want, Toes

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• I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Outkast, Humour

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