Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack Obama

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter

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

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
Pablo Picasso

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Lewis Carroll

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller