Senses Quotes
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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.
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If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
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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.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
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There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
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Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.
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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.
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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
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The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.
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I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
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To Aquinas the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part is the mind ... and its intellectual contemplation.
