Senses Quotes

1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave. — Alexander Hamilton
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
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Develop a built-in bullshit detector. — Ernest Hemingway
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. — Ruth Stout
We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will. — Mike Milbury
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a… — Billy Graham
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the… — David Hume
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses… — Gary Zukav
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. — Walter Russell
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things… — Francis Bacon
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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