Paul Smith
Fashion Designer
"Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently."
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Make Sense
154 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why"
Rich Mullins
Musician
"What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read."
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"The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original and making sure everything makes sense."
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"Make sense who may. I switch off."
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"Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong."
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"Why should poetry have to make sense?"
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"If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them."
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"The world doesn't make sense until you force it to."
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"Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life."
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"It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense."
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"Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them."
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"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand."
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"People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point."
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"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."
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"The things that matter don't necessarily make sense."
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"Did all this make sense?"
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"...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant."
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"If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently."
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"I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense."
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"I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them."
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"Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier."
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