Quotes Tagged "sense"

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

Religion without sense is like a car with no wheels. You can be in it, but it won’t take you anywhere. We must be logical and good-natured if we want it to take us places for the greater good.

SENSE Do you make decisions based on what makes sense in your mind or what you sense in your heart?

The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion.

Education is the back-bone of everything in life. If the backbone/roots are strong nothing will be able to destroy it and if the roots are damaged nothing will stand over it.

Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya).

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.