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Senses Quotes
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. - Galileo Galilei Quotes
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. - Blaise Pascal Quotes
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. - Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin Quotes
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. - Denis Diderot Quotes
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. - Doris Humphrey Quotes
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in. - Frederick Sanger Quotes
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. - George Crumb Quotes
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. - Chauncey Wright Quotes
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. - Oscar Wilde Quotes
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. - Hervey Allen Quotes
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artists world. - Hans Hofmann Quotes
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. - Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials. - Michael Musto Quotes
I couldnt tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. Id touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou Quotes
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. - Michel De Montaigne Quotes
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs Quotes
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. - Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller Quotes
To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess theyre not where the thinking is done. - Sharon Olds Quotes
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. - Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
If my senses dont feel right then I dont do it. - Melanie Brown Quotes
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. - Jean Houston Quotes
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. - Virginia Woolf Quotes
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. - Franz Kafka Quotes
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? - Frank Herbert Quotes
I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us. - Jim Morrison Quotes
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. - Joseph Butler Quotes
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the worlds variety and uniqueness. - Maya Angelou Quotes
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. - Pablo Casals Quotes
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. - Matthew Simpson Quotes
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