Sensible Quotes

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

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.

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

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

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

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible,
except for those who agree with us.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

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

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

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.

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

All sensible investing is value investing

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

We don't do sensible things. This is America.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

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

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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

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

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]