Senses Quotes

1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that… — Matthew Simpson
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our… — Claude Debussy
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas… — Jane Campion
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. — Peter Diamandis
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,… — Rohinton Mistry
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Unknown Author
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so… — Gordon B. Hinckley
It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit… — Richard G. Scott
Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses. — Hugh Hefner
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will… — Sterling W Sill
Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world. — Peter Garrett
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV… — Susan Sontag
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,… — Remy de Gourmont
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,… — Joseph Story
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose… — Leon Foucault
[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary… — Marin Mersenne
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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