A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

A sense of humour is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Common sense is not so common.

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

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense.