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“Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.”

Common Issues Goodness Inspired Practicals Common Sense Good Sense

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.”

World Said Spiritual Spirituality Jesus Masters Mass Discovery Library Available Spiritual Wisdom World History Good Sense Krishna Torah

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.”

Honesty Politeness Good Sense

Book:The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters

Source: The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters

“When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.”

Firsts Wells Half Good Sense

Author:Richard Rohr

“The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.”

Knows Doe Self Shows Asks Perfect Honest Like You Smart Officials Truthful Examination Mislead Not Perfect Good Sense Being Smart I'm Not Perfect Self-examination Public Officials

Author:Ann Richards

“Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.”

People May Moments Use Fear Loses Comfort Ten Endure Enjoyment Contradiction Misfortunes Manifest Live In The Moment Wretched Good Sense Lament Supposition

Author:Eliza Haywood

“I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.”

“But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.”

Virtue Too Much Charm Good Sense

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.”

Heart Girl Humour My Heart Sweetness Good Sense

Author:Gerard Butler

“My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.”

Mother Various Good Sense Bohemian Searchers

Author:Madeline Kahn

“What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?”

Men Faces Good Sense

Author:Horace

“It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.”

Ifs Way Firsts Names Wealth Virtue Position Honor Demand Strive Preserves Willpower Good Sense

Author:Roman Baldorioty de Castro

“I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.”

Character Sound Quality Noble Judgement Attachment Good Sense Manly Amiable Sound Judgement

Author:Orestes Brownson

“The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.”

Persons Suffering Three Average Delusion Drivers Sense Of Humor Listeners Good Sense Average Person Good Listener Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Steven Sample

“Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.”

Men Sides Seeing Very Good Good Man Good Sense Physical Strength

Author:Werner Herzog

“I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.”

Girl Fun Humour Good Sense

Author:Corbin Bleu

“Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.”

People Way Believe Wanted Nations Grace Happened Democratic Convince Chicago Classroom Lectures Good Sense Circuits General Public Milton

Author:Allan H. Meltzer

“A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.”

Three Fine Characteristics Good Sense Few Words

Author:Moses ibn Ezra

“Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.”

Nonsense Disguise Good Sense

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.”

Thinking Should Should Have Sense Of Humor Good Sense Good Sense Of Humor Whimsy

Author:Judith Leiber

“The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.”

Ifs Made Feelings Funny Next Names Morning Youth Taste Humorous Decent Halls Secretary Pauses Good Sense Good Taste Swamps Sloppy Reluctance

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Feelings Felt Fire Conditions Words Of Wisdom Easier Faults Temper Coal Impatient Good Sense Good Feeling

Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Moving Results Powerful Moral Nice Century Hundred Twenties Raises Sells Competition Ships Coaching Abundance Zero Collaboration Tides Good Sense Scarcity Mentoring

Author:Daniel Burrus

“You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.”

Believe Sound Judgment Salvation Attributes Thank God Repent Prudence Good Sense Sound Judgment

Author:J. I. Packer

“A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.”

Men Believe Faith Belief Written Always Believe Good Sense

Author:Francois Rabelais

“There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.”

May Chance Rights Rational Folly Irrational Good Sense

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.”

People Knows Persons Poor Struggle Stupidity Hopefully Relate Kicks Friendly Sense Of Humor Good Sense Hardworking Good Sense Of Humor Poor Family Friendly Person

Author:Dolly Parton

“Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.”

Giving Persons Marriage Wife Husband Hundred Accomplishment Companion Temper Good Sense Constancy Friend Love Good Wife Good Nature

Book:The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works

“Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.”

Reason Products Good Sense Good Nature

Author:John Dryden

“I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on”

“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”

Goodness Companion Good Sense Good Nature

Author:William Wycherley

“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”

Ifs Pain Together Three Found Results Quality Taste Judgment Criticism Critics Depth Good Sense Pedants Pedantry Taste And Judgment

Author:Horace Walpole

“The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.”

Ifs Way Firsts May Night Next Force Sleep Morning Judging Good Sense Good Nature

Author:Horace Walpole

“I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.”

Thinking Art Good Sense Owing

Author:William Hogarth

“[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.”

Constitution British Working It Parliament Good Sense Good Faith British Constitution

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.”

Ifs Hard Philosophy Would Be Trouble Doctrine Excitement Good Sense Exotic Relativism Retaining

Book:Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

Source: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

“I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.”

Thinking Believe Ideas Sometimes Half Battle Jokes No Idea Sense Of Humor Believe In Me Good Sense Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Mila Kunis

“Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.”

Men Book Matter Mistake Weak Artistic Good Sense Weak Man

Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

“Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.”

Way Names Pride Praise Noble Defined Receiving Nevertheless Good Sense Magnanimity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.”

Long Running Amount Degrees Wit Long Runs Good Sense Tiresome

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.”

Men Art Company Regard Arise Internals Good Sense Breeding Good Company Good Breeding

Author:Cato the Younger

“The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.”

“A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.”

Ifs Men Mind May Quality Wise Bears Wit Income Good Sense Good Quality

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.”

Men Would Be Action Wife Economic Husband Speech Dull Heroic Pulling Tails Coats Caution Good Sense Extravagance Good Wife

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.”

Taste Delicate Good Sense

Author:Joseph Chenier

“That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.”

Acquire Good Sense

Author:Philippe de Commines

“I have a good sense of direction.”

Author:Anwar Robinson

“Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.”

Knows Wanted Interest Limitation Code Executives Platforms Good Sense Zuckerberg

Author:Ken Auletta

“Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.”

Army Politeness Good Sense Good Nature

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.”

Giving Helping Running Careers Handle Combination Interviews Sense Of Humor Absurdity Good Sense Landing Drills Smack Good Sense Of Humor Absurdity Of Life

Author:Robin Roberts