Sensible Quotes

546 Sensible quotes by 424 unique authors

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price… — Thomas Jefferson
To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both… — Bruce Lee
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. — Albert Ellis
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent… — Warren Buffett
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar… — James Joyce
Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children? — Jamie Oliver
The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy. — Elizabeth Taylor
The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the… — Carl Sagan
"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell." — Benjamin Disraeli
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. — Jean de la Bruyere
I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself.... Whatever you do, you're going… — Johnny Carson
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. — Ambrose Bierce
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking. — Jeff Cooper
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. — Chanakya
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring… — Oleg Romanishin
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station. — Mireille Enos
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If… — Elizabeth Aston
People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible… — Zhuangzi
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

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