Sensitiveness Quotes

19 Sensitiveness quotes by 18 unique authors

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. — Alfred Adler
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. — George Orwell
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an… — Marcel Proust
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art — Maurice Ravel
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of… — Sidney Hook
Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice… — Mabel Collins
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin. — Oswald Chambers
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost… — Charles Kingsley
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination… — Willa Cather
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver… — E. M. Forster
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed… — James Anthony Froude
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless… — W. Somerset Maugham
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go… — Amelia Barr

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