sensible actions Quotes

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.