Best Senses Sayings
1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
— Eugene Delacroix
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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,…
— Samuel Johnson
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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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For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses…
— Henri Poincare
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes…
— Humphry Davy
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can…
— Immanuel Kant
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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to…
— Charles Lindbergh
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
— Francis Bacon
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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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The war existing between the senses and reason.
— Blaise Pascal
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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
— Sydney Schanberg
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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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Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
— Swami Vivekananda
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization…
— Swami Vivekananda
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When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.
— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major…
— Rajneesh
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There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know…
— Rajneesh
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and…
— Victor Hugo
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I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all…
— Pablo Casals
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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are…
— Aristotle
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