Senses Quotes
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Plutarch
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.
Caryll Houselander
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Coco Chanel
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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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Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?
Ray Stevens
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Allen W. Wood
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If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
Neil Harbisson
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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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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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When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
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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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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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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Nikola Tesla
