Sane
adjective
Showing good mental health and sound judgment.
Please make a sane decision
Often appears as...
- sane person
- sane judgement
adjective
Showing good sense and reason in practical affairs.
A sane approach to the problems
Often appears as...
- sane approach
- sane perspective
adjective
Legally of sound mind and capable of making decisions.
He was declared sane in court
Often appears as...
- declared sane
- found sane
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Technical
adjective
Showing good mental health and sound judgment.
Please make a sane decision
Often appears as...
- sane person
- sane judgement
adjective
Showing good sense and reason in practical affairs.
A sane approach to the problems
Often appears as...
- sane approach
- sane perspective
adjective
Legally of sound mind and capable of making decisions.
He was declared sane in court
Often appears as...
- declared sane
- found sane
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Good Judgment
Use 'sane' to describe decisions or actions reflecting clear and rational thinking.
Choosing to seek shelter during a storm is a sane decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Mental Well-being
'Sane' implies mental healthiness, opposite to insanity.
After a restful holiday, she returned to work feeling sane again.
Pro Tip 3/3Sarcasm Caution
Sometimes, 'sane' is used sarcastically to mean the opposite, especially when expectations are defied.
He brought a snake home and called it a sane choice!
Pro Tip 1/3Good Judgment
Use 'sane' to describe decisions or actions reflecting clear and rational thinking.
Choosing to seek shelter during a storm is a sane decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Mental Well-being
'Sane' implies mental healthiness, opposite to insanity.
After a restful holiday, she returned to work feeling sane again.
Pro Tip 3/3Sarcasm Caution
Sometimes, 'sane' is used sarcastically to mean the opposite, especially when expectations are defied.
He brought a snake home and called it a sane choice!
Pro Tip 1/3Good Judgment
Use 'sane' to describe decisions or actions reflecting clear and rational thinking.
Choosing to seek shelter during a storm is a sane decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Mental Well-being
'Sane' implies mental healthiness, opposite to insanity.
After a restful holiday, she returned to work feeling sane again.
Pro Tip 3/3Sarcasm Caution
Sometimes, 'sane' is used sarcastically to mean the opposite, especially when expectations are defied.
He brought a snake home and called it a sane choice!
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Your elusive creative...
I've been looking over the last year for like models for how to do that I've been sort of looking across time and I've been trying to find like other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks
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Strange answers to the...
to sniff out explosives?' When I read my medical notes, I saw they'd 'Believes bees can sniff out explosives.'" He said, "You know, they're always looking out for nonverbal clues to my mental state. But how do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way?
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Your elusive creative...
And, as I've been looking, over the last year, for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works. The problem is that war does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth. Any sane person hates war, hates the idea of war,
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E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
Keep your eyes lifted and your head turning. The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. To understand and use it sanely,
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Strange answers to the...
explosives whenever at my medical notes I saw they'd written believes bees can sniff out explosives he said you know they're always looking out for non-verbal clues to my mental state but how do you sit in a sane way
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Lesley Hazleton: The...
and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice. Fear was the only sane response,
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Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
sort of obsessing over spending all this time to the point of to the edge of sanity that doesn't that doesn't sound super wise isn't that like your your your time your your completely sane centered
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John Lewis and Bryan...
And I made a decision. I don't think I changed that much. I think I'm the same sane person. I said what I want to say and, for the most part, I do what I want to do.
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Fear Expert - Larry...
I don't know anybody who's fully sane who isn't afraid fear is an essential component to life it keeps you on your guard and in the truth philosophical way
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Your elusive creative...
I've been looking over the last year for like models for how to do that I've been sort of looking across time and I've been trying to find like other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks
Video examples
Strange answers to the...
to sniff out explosives?' When I read my medical notes, I saw they'd 'Believes bees can sniff out explosives.'" He said, "You know, they're always looking out for nonverbal clues to my mental state. But how do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way?
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
And, as I've been looking, over the last year, for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works. The problem is that war does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth. Any sane person hates war, hates the idea of war,
Video examples
E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
Keep your eyes lifted and your head turning. The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. To understand and use it sanely,
Video examples
Strange answers to the...
explosives whenever at my medical notes I saw they'd written believes bees can sniff out explosives he said you know they're always looking out for non-verbal clues to my mental state but how do you sit in a sane way
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Lesley Hazleton: The...
and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice. Fear was the only sane response,
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
sort of obsessing over spending all this time to the point of to the edge of sanity that doesn't that doesn't sound super wise isn't that like your your your time your your completely sane centered
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John Lewis and Bryan...
And I made a decision. I don't think I changed that much. I think I'm the same sane person. I said what I want to say and, for the most part, I do what I want to do.
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Fear Expert - Larry...
I don't know anybody who's fully sane who isn't afraid fear is an essential component to life it keeps you on your guard and in the truth philosophical way
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Quote examples
Steven Wright
American Comedian
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
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Nicole Polizzi
American Celebrity
I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.
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George Osborne
British Politician
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
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Nikola Tesla
Inventor
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
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Robert A. Heinlein
American Writer
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Saul Bellow
American Novelist
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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Stuart Chase
American Writer
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
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Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Director
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
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Nicole Polizzi
American Celebrity
I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.
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George Osborne
British Politician
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
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Nikola Tesla
Inventor
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
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Robert A. Heinlein
American Writer
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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Saul Bellow
American Novelist
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Quote examples
J. G. Ballard
British Author
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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Stuart Chase
American Writer
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
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Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Director
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
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