Senses Quotes

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.