Good Sense Quotes - Page 6

• Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

  Michael Hanlon

  Worry, Logic, Global Warming

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• It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

  Kimberly Frost

  Hair, Color, Brain

  Kimberly Frost (2009). “Would-Be Witch”, p.97, Penguin

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• In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Disappointment, Order, Expectations

  "A life in our times: memoirs".

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• Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

  Plato

  Wise, Agreement, Numbers

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• And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

  Lord Byron

  Angel, Nymphs, Ballet

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• I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite simply an able pathfinder - a natural navigator - somebody who can find his way by the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch - the senses he was born with) developed by the blessing of experience and the use of intelligence. All that pathfinder needs is his senses and knowledge of how to interpret nature's signs.

  Harold Gatty

  Believe, Blessing, Men

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• Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Pride, Despair, World

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

  Russell Banks

  Weed, Kids, Boys

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• Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

  Hugh Nibley

  Perfectly Good, Views, Impossible

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Men, Genius, Crowds

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  Frances Wright

  Women, House, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

  Katsuya Okada

  Believe, People, Easy

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• Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

  Livy

  Time, Blessed, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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• I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.

  Dorothy Draper

  Dog, Believe, Heart

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• So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Perfectly Good, Ideas

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• Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Husband, Real, Thinking

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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. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

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

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• You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Sports, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Perfect

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.335

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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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• 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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• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Laughter, Silly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

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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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