Sensible Quotes

546 Sensible quotes by 424 unique authors

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block… — Andy Burnham
And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb… — Michael Foley
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach… — Dale Carnegie
You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people donâ€™t grab the right ideas or donâ€™t know what to… — Charlie Munger
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things. — John Henry Newman
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into… — Randall Munroe
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. — Emily Post
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius
No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out… — Robert Higgs
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission… — Chinua Achebe
It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible. — Anna Held
Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my… — Thomas Merton
Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is… — B. C. Forbes
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world… — Johannes Kepler
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. — Ambrose Bierce
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they… — Frances O'Grady
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make… — John Stuart Mill
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for… — John Foster
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff. — Jojo Moyes

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