Our Senses Quotes
140 quotes by 124 authors
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We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
— Walter Russell
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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
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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
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These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
— Peter Diamandis
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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
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
— Peter Garrett
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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
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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
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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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