--- title: "15 Sense Taste Quotes by 14 authors" description: "Browse 15 Sense Taste quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Sense Taste sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/whitney-balliett-87992_bundles_a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loos_2956648.jpg" --- > [A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitney-balliett/a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loosely-together-by-a-sense-of/) [Whitney Balliett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitney-balliett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/whitney-balliett-87992_bundles_a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loos_2956648.jpg) > [As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. But of all the senses, sight is the one I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-myers/as-a-chef-my-sense-of-taste-and-smell-are-extremely-important-but-of/) [Dave Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-myers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/198/dave-myers-6345_chef_as-a-chef-my-sense-of-taste-and-smell-ar_2303267.jpg) > [Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/gourmandise-is-an-impassioned-rational-and-habitual-preference-for/) [Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ad/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin_culinary_gourmandise-is-an-impassioned-rational-a_200938.png) > [Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/gourmandise-is-an-impassioned-rational-and-habitual-preference-for-2/) [Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/jean-anthelme-brillat-savarin_culinary_gourmandise-is-an-impassioned-rational-a_541661.png) > [Compared to their sense of smell, dogs seem to pay a lot less attention to their sense of taste. Apparently they believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-coren/compared-to-their-sense-of-smell-dogs-seem-to-pay-a-lot-less/) [Stanley Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-coren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/stanley-coren-40173_attention_compared-to-their-sense-of-smell-dogs-se_1938151.jpg) > [Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-westerberg/having-a-diverse-sense-of-taste-or-lack-of-taste-i-loved-so-many/) [Paul Westerberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-westerberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/paul-westerberg-14078_different_having-a-diverse-sense-of-taste-or-lack_1919694.png) > [The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-velez-mitchell/the-fact-is-america-s-obsession-with-meat-and-dairy-has-pretty-much/) [Jane Velez-Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-velez-mitchell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/jane-velez-mitchell-7722_america_the-fact-is-america-s-obsession-with-mea_1272487.jpg) > [Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian/yes-i-am-a-demon-there-s-no-way-i-could-understand-my-prey-a-human-s/) [SebastiAn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/sebastian-30531_demon_yes-i-am-a-demon-there-s-no-way-i-could_1400751.png) > [“The sense of taste is able to gain the distance necessary for choosing and judging what is the most urgent necessity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-distance-necessary-for/) [Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/hans-georg-gadamer-17497_life_the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-d_858663.jpg) > [“Taste is a sort of chemical touch. Taste cells are specialized skin cells. If you have hands for picking up foods and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roach/taste-is-a-sort-of-chemical-touch-taste-cells-are-specialized-skin/) [Mary Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbe/mary-roach-635_taste_taste-is-a-sort-of-chemical-touch-taste_2700772.png) > [Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-mass/everything-we-think-we-know-is-really-only-perceived-by-our-senses-he/) [Wendy Mass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-mass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10b/wendy-mass-2733_air_everything-we-think-we-know-is-really-on_62296.jpg) > [“But does this imply the bizzare prediction that you can substitute one sense for another? In the other words, if you took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eagleman/but-does-this-imply-the-bizzare-prediction-that-you-can-substitute/) [David Eagleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eagleman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/david-eagleman-2079_prediction_but-does-this-imply-the-bizzare-predicti_1974151.png) > [“How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-de-maupassant/how-fathomless-the-mystery-of-the-unseen-is-we-cannot-plumb-its/) [Guy de Maupassant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-de-maupassant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/guy-de-maupassant-1364_infinite_how-fathomless-the-mystery-of-the-unseen_219697.jpg) > [“I never realized how powerful desire could be. It consumes every part of you, enhancing your senses by a million. When you’re…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-hoover/i-never-realized-how-powerful-desire-could-be-it-consumes-every-part/) [Colleen Hoover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colleen-hoover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/colleen-hoover-124_desire_i-never-realized-how-powerful-desire-cou_2274766.jpg) > [“To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a century of mechanisation. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/to-begin-with-there-is-the-frightful-debauchery-of-taste-that-has/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/george-orwell-57_computers_to-begin-with-there-is-the-frightful-deb_1970016.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sense-taste/#itemlist", "name": "Sense Taste Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Whitney Balliett" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitney-balliett/a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loosely-together-by-a-sense-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/whitney-balliett-87992_bundles_a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loos_2956648.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/whitney-balliett-87992_bundles_a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loos_2956648.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/whitney-balliett-87992_bundles_a-critic-is-a-bundle-of-biases-held-loos_2956648.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.” — Whitney Balliett", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. 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Thus Gracian already sees in taste a “spiritualization of animality” and rightly points out that there is cultivation (cultura) not only of the mind (ingenio) but also of taste (gusto).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hans-Georg Gadamer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-distance-necessary-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/hans-georg-gadamer-17497_life_the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-d_858663.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/hans-georg-gadamer-17497_life_the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-d_858663.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/hans-georg-gadamer-17497_life_the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-d_858663.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The sense of taste is able to gain the distance necessary for choosing and judging what is the most urgent…” — Hans-Georg Gadamer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Taste is a sort of chemical touch. Taste cells are specialized skin cells. If you have hands for picking up foods and putting them into your mouth, it makes sense for taste cells to be on your tongue. But if, like flies, you don’t, it may be more expedient to have them on your feet. “They land on something and go, ‘Oooo, sugar!’’’ Rawson does her best impersonation of a housefly. “And the proboscis automatically comes out to suck the fluids.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary Roach" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-roach/taste-is-a-sort-of-chemical-touch-taste-cells-are-specialized-skin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbe/mary-roach-635_taste_taste-is-a-sort-of-chemical-touch-taste_2700772.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbe/mary-roach-635_taste_taste-is-a-sort-of-chemical-touch-taste_2700772.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbe/mary-roach-635_taste_taste-is-a-sort-of-chemical-touch-taste_2700772.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Taste is a sort of chemical touch. Taste cells are specialized skin cells. 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Incredibly, the answer is yes, and the consequences run deep, as we are about to see.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Eagleman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eagleman/but-does-this-imply-the-bizzare-prediction-that-you-can-substitute/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/david-eagleman-2079_prediction_but-does-this-imply-the-bizzare-predicti_1974151.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/david-eagleman-2079_prediction_but-does-this-imply-the-bizzare-predicti_1974151.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/david-eagleman-2079_prediction_but-does-this-imply-the-bizzare-predicti_1974151.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But does this imply the bizzare prediction that you can substitute one sense for another? In the other…” — David Eagleman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot see the infinitely small or the infinitely great, nor anything too close or too distant, such as the beings who live on a star or the creatures which live in a drop of water... with ears that deceive us by converting vibrations of the air into tones that we can hear, for they are sprites which miraculously change movement into sound, a metamorphosis which gives birth to harmonies which turn the silent agitation of nature into song... with our sense of smell, which is poorer than any dog's... with our sense of taste, which is barely capable of detecting the age of a wine! Ah! If we had other senses which would work other miracles for us, how many more things would we not discover around us!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Guy de Maupassant" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-de-maupassant/how-fathomless-the-mystery-of-the-unseen-is-we-cannot-plumb-its/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/guy-de-maupassant-1364_infinite_how-fathomless-the-mystery-of-the-unseen_219697.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/guy-de-maupassant-1364_infinite_how-fathomless-the-mystery-of-the-unseen_219697.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/guy-de-maupassant-1364_infinite_how-fathomless-the-mystery-of-the-unseen_219697.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes…” — Guy de Maupassant", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I never realized how powerful desire could be. It consumes every part of you, enhancing your senses by a million. When you’re in the moment, it enhances your sense of sight, and all you can do is focus on the person in front of you. It enhances your sense of smell, and suddenly, you’re aware of the fact that his hair has just been washed and his shirt is fresh out of the dryer. It enhances your sense of touch and makes your skin prickle and your fingertips tingle, and it leaves you craving to be touched. It enhances your sense of taste, and your mouth becomes hungry and wanting, and the only thing that can satisfy it is the relief of another mouth in search of the same.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Colleen Hoover" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colleen-hoover/i-never-realized-how-powerful-desire-could-be-it-consumes-every-part/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/colleen-hoover-124_desire_i-never-realized-how-powerful-desire-cou_2274766.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/colleen-hoover-124_desire_i-never-realized-how-powerful-desire-cou_2274766.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/colleen-hoover-124_desire_i-never-realized-how-powerful-desire-cou_2274766.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I never realized how powerful desire could be. It consumes every part of you, enhancing your senses by a…” — Colleen Hoover", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a century of mechanisation. This is almost too obvious and too generally admitted to need pointing out. But as a single instance, take taste in its narrowest sense - the taste for decent food. In the highly mechanical countries, thanks to tinned food, cold storage, synthetic flavouring matters, etc., the palate it almost a dead organ. As you can see by looking at any greengrocer’s shop, what the majority of English people mean by an apple is a lump of highly-coloured cotton wool from America or Australia; they will devour these things, apparently with pleasure, and let the English apples rot under the trees. It is the shiny, standardized, machine-made look of the American apple that appeals to them; the superior taste of the English apple is something they simply do not notice. Or look at the factory-made, foil wrapped cheeses and ‘blended’ butter in an grocer’s; look at the hideous rows of tins which usurp more and more of the space in any food-shop, even a dairy; look at a sixpenny Swiss roll or a twopenny ice-cream; look at the filthy chemical by-product that people will pour down their throats under the name of beer. Wherever you look you will see some slick machine-made article triumphing over the old-fashioned article that still tastes of something other than sawdust. And what applies to food applies also to furniture, houses, clothes, books, amusements and everything else that makes up our environment. These are now millions of people, and they are increasing every year, to whom the blaring of a radio is not only a more acceptable but a more normal background to their thoughts than the lowing of cattle or the song of birds. The mechanisation of the world could never proceed very far while taste, even the taste-buds of the tongue, remained uncorrupted, because in that case most of the products of the machine would be simply unwanted. In a healthy world there would be no demand for tinned food, aspirins, gramophones, gas-pipe chairs, machine guns, daily newspapers, telephones, motor-cars, etc. etc.; and on the other hand there would be a constant demand for the things the machine cannot produce. But meanwhile the machine is here, and its corrupting effects are almost irresistible. One inveighs against it, but one goes on using it. Even a bare-arse savage, given the change, will learn the vices of civilisation within a few months. 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