Sensible Quotes

• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book translated by Milton Waldman. Chapter 12: "Conversation with Jean Martet", 1930.

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

  Francis Bacon

  Beauty, Infinite, Truth And Justice

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• Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Book, Logical

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

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Constant, Penetrate

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• Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Order

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Artist, Age

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Drinking, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Approach

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• The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Communication, Tailors, Persons

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• All sensible investing is value investing

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Values

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• The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Shoes, Fantasy, Muse

  "The Flat-Heeled Muse". The Horn Book Magazine, www.hbook.com. April 01, 1965.

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• Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

  Warren Buffett

  Goal, Outstanding, Mediocre

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• We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, People, Trying

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• Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

  Poul Henningsen

  Fighting, Steps, Conservative

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• 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.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Love, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

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• Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Understanding, Facts

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Past, Continuing On

  1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

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• People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

  Douglas Yates

  Love, Relationship, Breakup

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• I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

  John Lydon

  Lying, Never Lie, Values

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