Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
If the fights that I take make sense, and there is not a 27-year-old number one contender in the world, then I'll probably be interested in doing fights that make sense and fights that are marketable.
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.