Sensible Quotes

Sensible Quote of the day

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

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 and goahead plot.

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

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 sensible response exists.

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 struggling to regain.

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

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 weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

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.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.