Sensible Quotes

“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

“The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

“perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.”
― Barack Obama

“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
― Tiffany Madison

“Each one of us is the sum total of every moment that we’ve ever experienced with all the people we’ve ever known.”
― Kim Carpenter John Perry, The Vow: The Kim & Krickitt Carpenter Story

“Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.”
― Andrew Smith

“Before committing to a task, it’s sensible to have a clear idea of our competence.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and won't believe what sensible people say. And because such daft and dewy-eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes, impossible things are happening every day.”
― Rogers Hammerstein's Cinderella

“Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.”
― Dr. Amit Abraham, The Great Game

“I shall lay the path for you. There is no reason you should run into any trouble, provided you are sensible.” “It sounds perfectly straightforward,” said Sakti, who had never been sensible in her life.”
― Zen Cho, The True Queen

“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”
― William Temple

“The trouble with being a rock of sense is that, eventually, you lose the sense and become the rock.”
― Stewart Stafford

“It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but still, I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Never enter an arse-kicking contest with a porcupine.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“That's what a strong woman does. I can't worry about what other people think ALL the time. I can't worry what Erin might do, or even if Danny sees it. That's sensible. I am sensible. IT IS SENSIBLE TO LIKE CANADA and share the fact. I have decided.”
― Rae Earl, My Life Uploaded

“Sensible and scholarly figures enjoy and praise literary writings; conversely, others focus on the writer's pics, especially when it is a beauty of the female, which mostly prevails knowledge and ability.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Tools?" scoffed Kalisti, "Tools are for people who have nothing better to do than think things through and make sensible plans.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“Miss Sophia says she will never love again."
"She'll marry someday," Ross replied cynically. "It is only a matter of time."
"Yes, Miss Sophia will probably marry," Eliza said pragmatically. "What I said was, she will never love again."
He shrugged casually. "If one is to marry, it is best to do it for reasons other than love."
"That is exactly what Miss Sophia says." Eliza took her leave, pausing at the door to add with a bit too much sincerity, "How sensible you both are!" She departed with a chuckle while Ross scowled after her.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Lady Sophia's Lover

“It is impossible for the Bible to be responsible for incredible wisdom without a highly sensible and invisible backing, only the gullible will believe otherwise.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Why do people that ask for “evidence” never ask for rational explanation? What is more reliable? – analytic reason, or the unreliable, fallible, limited, frequently delusional human senses where it is guaranteed that they are showing us only phenomena and never noumena (i.e. things in themselves). You cannot understand reality as a phenomenon, although this is in fact exactly what science tries to do. You can understand reality only as a noumenon – as an intelligible thing in itself – and that’s exactly what ontological mathematics is all about. Anyone that obsesses over phenomenal evidence is an opponent of noumenal truth, which is never subject to phenomenal evidence.”
― Thomas Stark, Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason

“We are not good, as a human species, at accepting that extraordinary things do sometimes happen.”
― Katherine Rundell, Skysteppers: World Book Day 2021

“Man perpetuates his own laws to keep order in a mandatory constant step ahead of the chaos.”
― Alistair Akrofi-Mantey

“She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

“To paraphrase Maurice Blanchot, it [24/7] is both of and after the disaster, characterized by the empty sky, in which no star or sign is visible, in which one's bearings are lost and orientation is impossible. p.17”
― Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“宽容就是允许别人有判断和行动的自由。对不同于自己的观点和行为，哪怕已经预见到了一切危险的结局，也仍然耐心地公正地等待。

Tolerance is to allow others to have freedom of judgment and action. You still wait for different opinions and actions patiently and impartially even though all dangerous outcomes are forseeable.”
― 毕淑敏

“La felicidad la vivo intensamente y de manera exagerada y la tristeza como si el mundo se fuera acabar.”
― Estefanía Pérez, La Chica de la Manzana

“I tilted my head and considered this.
I wasn't known for silence. But if they needed help, it was apt to be something strange. I felt a small geyser of curiosity building, as it always did.
Part of me—the sensible part—recoiled in horror; that feeling preceded all of my favorite mistakes.”
― Brian Hugenbruch, ZNB Presents: Year One

“Je suis juste trop pleine de larmes : Si je me penche un peu, je déborde.”
― Alice Colin, Ça va aller

“I only take a strong stand on the Golden Middle.”
― Sebastyne Alpha