Sensible Quotes

546 quotes by 424 authors

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no… — John H. Vandenberg
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two… — Alfred North Whitehead
...Chemicals(:)...We not only don't know what's going on out there is dangerous ~ we don't even know what is going on out there. It's what… — Russell E. Train
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half… — Theodore Gordon
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible.… — Betty Dodson
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. — Oscar Wilde
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves… — George Bernard Shaw
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we… — Susan Jacoby
True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it,… — John Tillotson
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some peopleâ€™s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That… — Berenice Abbott
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. — Herman Melville
No sensible author wants anything but praise. — A A Milne
Sometimes I wish I were less sensible. — Stella McCartney
The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible… — Claire Weekes
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions,… — Thomas Browne
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. — Linda Wells
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that… — Tim Vine
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay

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