Sensible Quotes

546 quotes by 424 authors

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a… — Jack Vance
Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other;… — Mikhail Bakunin
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to… — Joseph Priestley
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're… — Carl Safina
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it… — Baron de Montesquieu
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most… — Malcolm Forbes
I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our… — David Einhorn
The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another… — Garrett Hardin
The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin. — Jim Rogers
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible. — Mark Steel
I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked… — Jarvis Cocker
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,… — Pico Iyer
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. — Morris L. Ernst
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward… — Chauncey Wright
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food… — Ismail Serageldin
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and… — Martin Fleischmann
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that… — David L. Katz
I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found. — Alan Curbishley
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell

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