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Sensible Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
- There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It…
- The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible…
- Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
More Sensible Quotes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. — Francis Bacon
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a… — James A. Baldwin
- I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the… — Harold Brodkey
- I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient… — Emily Bronte
- If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has… — Samuel Butler
- One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at… — Samuel Butler
- I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion
- The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all… — Drew Carey