#sense

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. ↗

— George Carlin

#equality #feminism #humanism #humor #inspirational

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#around #calls #equipped #explores #five

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious. ↗

— Iain Pears

#doctrine #education #freedom #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#senses #love

Books and minds only work when they're open. ↗

— James Dewar

#intelligence #left-is-right-and-right-is-wrong #liberalism #open-mindedness #practicality

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#history #nature #science #nature

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#sense #stupidity #stupidity

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #personal-calling

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗

— Aristophanes

#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

Love, we all talk about it, we all wish for it, and most of the time we shun away from it. ↗

— Nadina Boun

#nadina-boun #quotes-that-make-sense #love