Sensible Quotes - Page 20

• "As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Religion, Morality

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 81, 1880.

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

  Vernon Howard

  Years, Feet, Thousand

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Delicate, Promoting

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• I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

  Johnny Carson

  Life, Trying, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criminals, Crime, Dies

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• He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Children, Men

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• A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

  Oleg Romanishin

  Success, Winning, Self

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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Finding Yourself, Criticism

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• Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

  Gottlob Frege

  World, Impression, Locked Up

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• If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

  John H. Vandenberg

  Men, Self, Doubt

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• The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

  Betty Dodson

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

  John Tillotson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Imperfection

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412

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• I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

  Herman Melville

  Asylums

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.41

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  A. A. Milne

  Want, Praise

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• Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

  Stella McCartney

  Wish, Sometimes

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• The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.

  Claire Weekes

  Stupid, Two, People

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• True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

  William James

  Ideas, Consistency, Quarters

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.75, 谷月社

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  He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Twenties, Tasks

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381

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• In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

  Alexander Berkman

  Mean, Men, Benefits

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  David Hume

  Morning, Night, Silence

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.339, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Media, Political

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 9), 1964.

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• [The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Wish, Body

  "The Visible and the Invisible". Book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, p. 135, 1968.

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• There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

  Arlen Specter

  Cells, Use, Research

  "Senate poised to pass stem cell bill" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

  Terry Pratchett

  School, Order, Way

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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