Sensible Quotes - page 3

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. (Bertrand Russell)
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. View quote
Grover Cleveland
There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research. View quote
Arlen Specter
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. View quote
Jane Austen
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. View quote
Jane Austen
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. That it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty. View quote
David Hume
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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. View quote
Richard Dawkins
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. View quote
Anne Brontë
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. (Albert Schweitzer)
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. View quote
Herman Melville
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? View quote
Stanisław Leszczyński
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power. View quote
J. William Fulbright
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance. View quote
Bill Mollison
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion. (Kurt Hahn)
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion. [...] The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery. View quote
Kurt Hahn
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. View quote
James Joyce
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no ‘distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any ‘sensible difference to anybody. View quote
Max Horkheimer
As for that,' said Waldenshare, 'sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'Pray, what is that' inquired the Prince. 'Sensible men never tell. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli