Sensible Quotes · Page 14

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Before committing to a task, it’s sensible to have a clear idea of our competence.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

— Albert Ellis

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at…

— Samuel Butler

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

— John Malkovich

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

— Jim Rogers

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

— Wilbur Ross

The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of…

— Anuj

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with…

— Lewis Carroll

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of…

— William Temple

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his…

— Hippocrates

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever…

— Cassandra Clare

In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to…

— Mors Kochanski

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I…

— Anna Friel

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what…

— James Lovelock

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe…

— China Mieville

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but…

— Jane Campion

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond…

— Alexander Pope

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are…

— Lincoln Steffens

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible…

— William James

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us.…

— Oliver Sacks

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

— Luc de Clapiers

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

— Plutarch

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

— Socrates

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

— Anonymous

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

— Stephen Mangan

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

— Herman Melville

“Attitude !!! I have mine ,it's just that ,I am sensible enough not to showcase it un-necessarily”

— Ayaan Basu

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

— Charles Kennedy

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

— Michael Eisner

I'm really sensible with my money. So I would like to own my own house rather than rent.

— Scarlett Moffatt

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

— Jane Austen

Most people are sensible enough not to question where they came from because that requires effort.

— Jeremy Limn

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

— John Lithgow

There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

— Arlen Specter

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

— John Henry Newman