Sensible Quotes - Page 19

• A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Husband, Heart, Alaska

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• It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

  John Henry Newman

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• You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, People, Temperament

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• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Baseball, Italian

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• Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

  Susan Orlean

  Trying, Impossible, Photograph

  "Soulful" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 4, 2011.

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

  Pratibha Patil

  Country, Strong, Thinking

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• 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 the work ethos.

  Michael Foley

  Ethos, Tasks, Might

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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

  Harry Seidler

  Beautiful, Hair, Inspirational Business

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• Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, People, Done

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• 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 the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.

  Andy Burnham

  Block, Two, Nhs

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• Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

  Charles Simmons

  Life, Men, Noble

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• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Defense, Half, Return

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• Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Commitment, Giving, Wife

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.154, Revell

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• Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
  No sensible capitalist would do that.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Money, Nature

  "The Blue Economy 3.0: The Marriage of Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creates a New Business Model That Transforms Society". Book by Gunter Pauli, 2017.

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• While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Religious, Hands, Mind

  Clement of Alexandria (2017). “Collected Works”, p.54, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Religious, Father, Law

  Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.557, Delphi Classics

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• It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Crazy, Smell, Mad

  "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television, 1996.

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• Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Appreciation, Editors, Criticism

  "Selected Essays".

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• It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Trying, Mechanic

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• Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Nature, Doe

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• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  John Milton

  Death, Mother, Sleep

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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• No sensible person ever made an apology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Made, Persons

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• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

  Isaac Newton

  Time, Mean, Science

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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