Discord Quote by Sir John Davies

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for…

— Harriet Martineau

“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again…

— Nicholas Copernicus

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In modern time slowness is new sickness.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The slower your brain is at processing sensory information, the faster time seems to run, and vice versa’ How”

— Jean Paul Zogby

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

— Simon Mawer

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in…

— Jane Austen

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the…

— Julian Simon

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

— Ovid

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

— W. Somerset Maugham