Top 39 Sensible Thinking Quotes
#1. India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
Pratibha Patil
#2. I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
Jerome K. Jerome
#3. 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
#4. The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.
Confucius
#5. People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant
#6. I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#7. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.
Doc Brown
#8. I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.
Jimi Hendrix
#9. The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#10. I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.
Bernie Sanders
#11. There was a sensible part of me somewhere that clutched its pearls and hissed that I better not give up my V-card in a CELLAR, but when Archer's hands slid under my shirt and onto the skin of my back, I started thinking that a cellar was as good a place as any.
Rachel Hawkins
#12. In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
#13. It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.
Anjelica Huston
#14. Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.
Charlie Munger
#15. I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.
Nick Park
#16. There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#17. People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.
Frederick Lenz
#18. I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.
Alan Curbishley
#19. We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.
Johnny Galecki
#20. Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.
Charlie Munger
#21. The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
Michael Bolton
#22. I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#23. Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm ... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.
Freeman Dyson
#24. The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
William Hazlitt
#25. A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
Hippocrates
#26. The appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
Susan Sontag
#27. You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
Van Dyke Parks
#28. There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
Paul Newman
#29. Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
David Nicholls
#30. He was the kind to cut through to the essence, and thus someone who made a difference.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#31. 51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.
Tariq Ramadan
#33. Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
Chinua Achebe
#34. You have to be you. You can't be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak quietly, you can do it for a little bit, but loud people are loud, and people who are not, are not.
Mario Testino
#36. The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9
Rick Riordan
#37. Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.
Jim Butcher
#38. Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.
Tara Hunt
#39. Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.
Kathy Reichs
