Sensibility Quotes

315 Sensibility quotes by 272 unique authors

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram
We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices… — Carolyn Forche
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility — Immanuel Kant
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core… — George Eliot
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting… — Robert Burns
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think… — Remy de Gourmont
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too… — Alexander Hamilton
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look… — Leo Tolstoy
I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair… — Rachel Bilson
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who… — James Patrick Kelly
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can… — Alan Cumming
My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities — Camryn Manheim
I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or… — Emma Thompson
Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style. — Martin Freeman
Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. — Donnie Wahlberg
Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone… — David McCullough
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the… — Brit Hume
No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature. — Thomas Jefferson
Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible. — Zeno of Citium
I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that… — Vaclav Havel
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that… — Medardo Rosso
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star. — George Howe Colt
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living… — Ashley Montagu
The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of… — Antonio Machado

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