Best Our Senses Quotes
140 Our Senses quotes by 121 unique authors
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
— Nikola Tesla
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There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some…
— William Harvey
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own…
— Marcel Proust
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We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net…
— Diane Ackerman
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When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine…
— Joan Halifax
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I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the…
— Unknown Author
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Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on…
— Marshall McLuhan
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as…
— William Henry Hudson
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Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best…
— Tom Wujec
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If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
— Neil Harbisson
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Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of…
— Richard Louv
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We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
— Richard Louv
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
— Abraham Flexner
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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we…
— Barry Hughart
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Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
— Don DeLillo
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The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the…
— Christopher Fry
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our…
— John Ruskin
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Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.
— Gautama Buddha
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Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
— Plutarch
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom…
— Josef Pieper
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Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming…
— Alberto Villoldo
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Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding…
— Julie Czerneda
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