Best Senses Proverbs
1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors
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To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not…
— Sharon Olds
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Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things…
— John Coltrane
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Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses,…
— John Coltrane
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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be…
— John Keats
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to…
— Walter Pater
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I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what…
— Clara Hughes
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There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those…
— Paracelsus
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In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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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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Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
— Amy Lowell
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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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To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were…
— Carl Rogers
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Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had…
— Bernie Krause
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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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St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a…
— Charles Cumming
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I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels…
— Pope Pius XII
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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and…
— Frederick Sanger
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I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had…
— Dave Cook
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What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist…
— Henri Matisse
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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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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Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic…
— Unknown Author
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