Senses Quotes
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Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
Chungliang Al Huang
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Dante Alighieri
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
Rene Descartes
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How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
Eugene Field
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Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Michael Servetus
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Live with all of your senses.
Sue Townsend
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The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
August Macke
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Once the well should be emptied of its water. All the mud should be removed. The water which then comes is the purest. Jnana is like this pure water. Once you burn away the thought of 'I' and 'mine', then non-attachment to the objects of the senses will result of its own accord.
Bhagawan Nityananda
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
Helen Keller
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
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If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.
Mel B Spice Girls
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Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Coco Chanel
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
Richard Powers
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.
Marcel Proust
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It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Nick Harkaway
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Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
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We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.
Edouard Vuillard
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Nikola Tesla
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If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
Neil Harbisson
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For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
William Blake