Sensible Quotes

546 quotes by 432 authors

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson
All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power. — Thomas Jefferson
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained… — Stephen Jay Gould
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. — Rudyard Kipling
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. — Grover Cleveland
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right… — Thomas Jefferson
I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total… — Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford
Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best… — Elizabeth David
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to… — Fred Hoyle
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing?… — Derek Clayton
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our… — George Whitefield
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. — Saadi
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible. — Julia Cameron
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in… — Aldous Huxley
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly… — Dalai Lama
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,… — Benjamin Franklin
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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