Nature of man Quote by Lyall Watson

It is a known truth that every body likes their own body odor, but none agrees.

— Yssubramanyam

“The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour – that is, a sinful odour.”

— Patrick Süskind

“Groddeck, that strange pupil of Freud, claimed that in reality our powers of smell are as sharp as those of a dog, but that…

— John Hillaby

“Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.”

— Mary Roach

“It's strange how quickly the significance of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's…

— Fredrik Backman

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

— Richard E. Grant

“You’d think you’d know when something smells bad; But if you’ve lived among sewage your whole life, bad smells are normal. Everything else seems…

— Melissa Abigail

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach…

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Fact: When somebody smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Animal smell is beyond philosophy.”

— Kōbō Abe

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana