Quotes about Sensible

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I have found from costly experience that it is much easier to analyze the facts after writing them down. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us reach a sensible decision. As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce some kind of a sensible pleasure or, at best, to stir up the emotions to a transitory thrill. I had always understood that art was contemplation, and that it involved the action of the highest faculties of man.

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.20

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible. I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.