Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
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Sensible
98 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool."
Akira Kurosawa
Director, Screenwriter
"The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life."
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"Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!"
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"We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us."
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"We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature."
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"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."
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"Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing."
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"No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business."
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"All sensible investing is value investing"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
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"We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness."
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"Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time."
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"No sensible person ever made an apology."
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"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
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"I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver."
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"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."
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"Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]"
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"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."
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"A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
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"Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press."
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