Senses Quotes
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I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. (Quote by - Mercedes Lackey)
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. (Quote by - Chauncey Wright)
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. (Quote by - Louis Aragon)
But where the senses fail us, reason must step in. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
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. (Quote by - Pablo Casals)
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. (Quote by - W B Yeats)
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. (Quote by - Cervantes)
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. (Quote by - Hans Hofmann)
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. (Quote by - Mervyn Peake)
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof. (Quote by - Bible)
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. (Quote by - Henry Williamson)
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. (Quote by - Charles Mackay)
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. (Quote by - Grace Paley)
Architects are taught to privilege the visual and be seduced by images. But we live in all five of our senses. (Quote by - Hillary Brown)
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it. (Quote by - Melanie Brown)
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses. (Quote by - William Harvey)
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? (Quote by - Walter Pater)
The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. (Quote by - Sharon Olds)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. (Quote by - Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Love is the poetry of the senses. (Quote by - Honoré de Balzac)
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination. (Quote by - Lady Morgan)
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. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. (Quote by - John Lithgow)
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. (Quote by - Socrates)
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point. (Quote by - Maria Callas)
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. (Quote by - Vladimir Kramnik)
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. (Quote by - Margaret Cavendish)
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. (Quote by - Alex Grey)
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. (Quote by - Steven Pinker)
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. (Quote by - Edwin Powell Hubble)
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! (Quote by - Robert Browning)
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. (Quote by - Eugene Field)
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. (Quote by - Tiberius)
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. (Quote by - Ann Druyan)
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Free me, I pray, to go in search of joys Unembroidered by your high, soft voice, Along that stony path the senses pave. (Quote by - James Merrill)
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. (Quote by - Arthur Keith)
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. (Quote by - Harvey Allen)
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. (Quote by - Jack Kroll)
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings. (Quote by - John Newcombe)
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think. (Quote by - Hugh Laurie)
