Sensible Quotes - Page 27

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

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Doctors, Harmony, Persons

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.52, Editorial MAXTOR

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• We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Waiting, Democracy, Majority

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Air, Sea

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.

  William Nordhaus

  Kyoto Protocol, Benefits, Weight

  William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.69, MIT Press

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• A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Two, Attention

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  People, Useless, Senses

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• No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
  [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Men, Mind

  "Epistolæ ad Atticus", XVI. 7. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

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• Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Men, Drunk

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.64

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• One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government, Blame, Server

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.120, Open Road Media

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

  Leigh Hunt

  Attractive, Masculine, Supposing

  Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.73

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• The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

  William Shenstone

  Infinite, Jest, Discourse

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.176

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• Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Nature

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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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• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ocean, Ponds

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

  Jane Porter

  Humility, Mind, Noble

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.108

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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Charity, Rewards, Way

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

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Missing, Deals

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  People, Stupidity, Sublime

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• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  Nan Hayworth

  Smart, Commitment, Honor

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