Insensible Quotes

53 Insensible quotes by 50 unique authors

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my… — Herman Melville
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the… — Miguel de Cervantes
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. — Annie Dillard
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible. — E L Doctorow
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and… — Mary Astell
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or… — Johannes Kepler
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man towards the unseen that it become insensible to the barriers of time and space. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must… — Bill Vaughan
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution...… — Felix Frankfurter
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while… — Diogenes
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. — David Hume
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of… — Voltaire
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm… — Charles Frazier
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it… — Sigmund Freud
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. — H.G. Wells
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. — Jane Austen
Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the… — Gregory Maguire
God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon… — Elizabeth Gaskell
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to… — Jeff Lindsay
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic… — James Ellis
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. — Saadi
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. — Ambrose Bierce
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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