Firsts Quote by Aristotle

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

— John Locke

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

— Plutarch

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

— Maria Montessori

Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

— Laura Huxley

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are…

— Michael J. Gelb

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

— Michael Servetus

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses…

— David Mason

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature…

— David Hume

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

— Dan Millman