Senses Quotes

1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors

Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. — Philip Massinger
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the… — Ezra Pound
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a… — Elizabeth Bowen
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to… — G I Gurdjieff
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha
Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by… — John Phillips
The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only… — Samuel Johnson
People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense — Charles Churchill
To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social… — Swami Vivekananda
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body,… — Swami Vivekananda
I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so… — Anais Nin
And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something… — Plato
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real — Plutarch
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. — Mary Baker Eddy
Me like to smoke the bud but my eyes they get all red, my senses get dull and me forget what i said, me find… — DJ Quik
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses. — Kenneth Rexroth
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses… — Bruce Friedrich
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses;… — Ernst Mach
Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot… — Unknown Author
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its… — William Kennedy
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
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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