Best Our Sense Lines
193 Our Sense quotes by 165 unique authors
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Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And…
— William Shakespeare
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[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
— Thorstein Veblen
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli…
— Nikola Tesla
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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along…
— Eric Maisel
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Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire…
— Brené Brown
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Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities.…
— Sue Thoele
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The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.
— Frederick Lenz
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Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of…
— Dalai Lama
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What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not…
— Desmond Tutu
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I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is…
— Brian Greene
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with…
— Havelock Ellis
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
— Eric Hoffer
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we…
— William James
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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because…
— Haniel Long
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We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own…
— Joel Osteen
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As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there can be a…
— Axl Rose
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Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us,…
— Dan Brown
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.…
— Hermann Hesse
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Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
— David Bohm
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
— Audre Lorde
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is,…
— Carl Sagan
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such…
— Thomas Hardy
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