Best Senses Quotations
1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors
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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,…
— Charles Darwin
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I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be…
— Stephen Covey
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Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses…
— Carl Zimmer
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek…
— George Sand
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Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
— Charles Lindbergh
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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…
— Unknown Author
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My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually…
— Freydoon Rassouli
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Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other…
— Unknown Author
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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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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the…
— Thomas Sprat
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Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something…
— Mooji
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To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
— Alan Watts
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Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame…
— Lewis Mumford
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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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In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of…
— Cadel Evans
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the…
— Hal Porter
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She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in…
— Christina Stead
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A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
— Hervey Allen
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Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to…
— Susan Sontag
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life…
— Helen Keller
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