Senses Quotes
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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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Live with all of your senses.
Sue Townsend
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
Alex Bledsoe
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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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The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.
Caryll Houselander
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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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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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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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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
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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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Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?
Ray Stevens
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Coco Chanel
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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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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
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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
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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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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Sydney Schanberg
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If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
Neil Harbisson
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I mean, we're grown-ups now. Allegedly. And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we've grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled. I think it's probably healthy. I mean, little kids don't have to make decisions, unless something's very wrong. Maybe you can't make up your mind as easily, if you feel too much. You know?
Charlie Jane Anders
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I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.
Amy Hardie
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Nikola Tesla