Sensible Quotes - Page 7

• Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, World, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.38, Routledge

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• There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Lying, Character

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• Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mistake, Believe, Patriotic

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.353, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

  Mary Wesley

  Moving, Towns, Walks

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• My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

  Mark Ronson

  Mother, Made, Hated

  "Mark Ronson: This charming man" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2010.

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• Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking

  "Gently does it?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

  Barry Hughart

  People, Want, Able

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.64, Spectra

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• Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!

  David L. Katz

  Book, Rewards, Abdomen

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• It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Thinking, Mind, Age

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• The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  Garrett Hardin

  Believe, Men, Animal

  "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968

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• The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Pain, Men, Firsts

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.67, Editorial MAXTOR

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• As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

  Mark Steel

  Thirty

  Mark Steel (2001). “Reasons to be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour Through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker”

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• I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Teacher, School, Glasses

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• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Marriage, Sound, Reticence

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• All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

  Chauncey Wright

  Character, Hallucinations, Facts

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

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• Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  Bear Grylls

  Dream, Fighting, Thinking

  "Authors on the spot: Bear Grylls". Interview with CBBC, news.bbc.co.uk. July 23, 2008.

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• Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Mother, Children, Father

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Zero, Supposing That, May

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.199, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• 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 ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.

  John Hancock

  Christian, Wise, Encouragement

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or
  self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Self, Ideas

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• The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Doubt, Quality

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• One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Mind, Enquiry

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