Senses Quotes

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

Dejan Stojanovic

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Anne Herbert

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

Frederick S. Perls

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Karl Pearson

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Diane Ackerman

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Oscar Wilde

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.

Henry Adams

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Kahlil Gibran

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Socrates

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.

Source Unknown

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Johann von Goethe

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Paulo Coelho

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

Helen Keller

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Henry Fuseli

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Johann von Goethe

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

William Osler