Our Senses Quotes

140 quotes by 124 authors

We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's… — Diane Ackerman
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to… — Galileo Galilei
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition… — Oswald Chambers
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… — Joseph Addison
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. — Walter Russell
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the… — Jean Houston
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… — Thomas Jefferson
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. — Margaret J. Wheatley
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected… — David Hume
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Hans Sloane
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses,… — Maya Angelou
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. — Peter Diamandis
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world. — Peter Garrett
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,… — Remy de Gourmont
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It… — Jan Gehl

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