Sensible Quotes - Page 28

• No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

  Brad Warner

  Matter, This Life, Our Future

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.58, New World Library

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• It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Suicide, Cat, Dark

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.

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• GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Alive, Advantage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.98, University of Georgia Press

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• 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 fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.

  Zhuangzi

  Fashion, Fate, Men

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• 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 ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Views

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

  Edmund Burke

  Rude, Benefits, Fierce

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

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• 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 we don't know that can really hurt us - kill us. ...It is time we started putting chemicals to the test - not people. It is time we gave people of this country some reason to believe that every time they take a breath, or eat, or drink, or touch, they are not taking their life into their hands. It is time that, down here on earth, we took a couple of small sensible steps on behalf of human health and life.

  Russell E. Train

  Country, Hurt, Couple

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• 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 themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Physicians, Lawyer

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.4

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

  Karl A. Menninger

  Brother, Mean, Law

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• Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Society, Doe

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• 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 our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

  Theodore Gordon

  Past, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Way, Scared

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• Nature conservation is not a luxury, it is a necessity! It not wise or sensible to continue to destroy your environment if you want to have a sound, stable, healthy and prosperous Egypt whether now or in the future.

  Mindy Baha El Din

  Wise, Healthy, Environment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Bankers, Debtors, Loan

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.

  Thomas Traherne

  Treasure, Want

  Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell (1950). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.21, CCEL

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• Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

  Michael Palin

  Garden, Long, People

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• If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

  Mark Frost

  Men, Half, Might

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Father, Men

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1858, Delphi Classics

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• On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, People

  "BSkyB: Clegg calls for Murdoch to 'do the decent thing' and drop deal" by Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011.

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• 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.

  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

  Made, Form, Word Of God

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• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Men, Solitude

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.387, Penguin

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

  Herman Melville

  Glitter, Opulence, Glare

  Herman Melville (2016). “Herman Melville The Dover Reader”, p.505, Courier Dover Publications

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• Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

  David Hume

  Determination, Practice, Light

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4014, Delphi Classics

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• In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Political

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