Senses Quotes

The fifth sense is common sense- either you have it or you don't.

~ Jennifer Shong

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

~ Diane Ackerman

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.

~ John Van Dyke

I wonder whether the Christmas feeling has anything to do with the sixth sense. Perhaps we're a little more the angels at Christmas than we are during the rest of the year. And Christmas is about all the other senses. I can smell Christmas, I can taste Christmas, and I can see and hear it.

~ Jostein Gaarder

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.

~ Savannah Page

सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि।प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति॥॥३- ३३॥इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ।तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ॥॥३- ३४॥`Each is prone to follow his nature,His senses stormed by earthly pleasure,Submit not to them they be your foe,Else you will reap what ever you sow.’ 3. 33-34

~ Munindra Misra

In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of joyous tears, and sing to the songs of streaming senses.

~ Kayla Severson

Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

~ Steven Holl

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

~ Ben Johnson

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

~ John Tillotson

Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

She looked at the produce stalls, a row of jewels in a case, the colors more subtle in the winter, a Pantone display consisting only of greens, without the raspberries and plums of summer, the pumpkins of autumn. But if anything, the lack of variation allowed her mind to slow and settle, to see the small differences between the almost-greens and creamy whites of a cabbage and a cauliflower, to wake up the senses that had grown lazy and satisfied with the abundance of the previous eight months. Winter was a chromatic palate-cleanser, and she had always greeted it with the pleasure of a tart lemon sorbet, served in a chilled silver bowl between courses.

~ Erica Bauermeister

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

~ Rohinton Mistry

Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

~ Ryan Lilly

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

~ Anne Rice

Vanity dulls the senses.

~ Nadja Sam

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses

~ Eric Gamalinda

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

~ Vera Farmiga

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

~ Dane Cook

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

~ Kristin Gore

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

~ John Lithgow

Love is the poetry of the senses.

~ Honoré De Balzac

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

~ Francis Bacon

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

~ Nikola Tesla

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

~ Maria Callas

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

~ René Descartes

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

~ Virginia Woolf

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

~ Neil Harbisson

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

~ Blaise Pascal

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

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

~ Washington Irving