Ancient Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the…

— Robert E. Ornstein

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

— Galileo Galilei

“It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.”

— James A. Michener

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our senses are always part of the process.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“This leading-edge research echoes what ancient wisdom has always known: that each organ of the body, including the brain, speaks its own “thoughts,” “feelings,”…

— Ann Frederick

“Heed not the blind eye, the echoing ear, nor yet the tongue, but bring to this great debate the test of reason. —Parmenides”

— Vali Nasr

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

— Barbara Sher