Quotes About Sensitivity

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

Don't ignore intuitive tickles, lest they reappear as sledgehammers. (from First Rule of Ten)

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.

Before you open your mouth," I tell him, "I want you to stop and think. Ask yourself: 'What is the thing I'm about to say going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.

My heart quotes your love for me, not in words but in heartbeats.

When you help an animal, do your absolute best to make sure you don't harm it at the same time, and Never walk past a problem with an animal—fix it.

but John Voelker, who met him when 'Anatomy of a Murder' was being shot in Michigan, viewed him through the clear eyes of a novelist and a judge and was struck by what he saw: 'I gradually felt drawn to him, not because I savor disillusion, but rather because I sensed that, in his case at least, '[his disillusion] masked great sensitivity and pride and even, however finely veiled, a vein of melancholy and loneliness.

Down through the ages and in the whole world, Watt and Newton cannot have been the only ones to notice the steam from a boiling kettle or observe an apple fall. Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

children could be taught to hear and feel music in their minds rather than just with their ears; how to make them feel music as a thing of movement rather than a dull, lifeless subject; how to awaken a child's sensitivity.

Pendidikan zaman sekarang yagn telah bergantung pada huruf dan bahasa mungkin telah menyebabkan kemunduran kepekaan anak-anak untuk melihat alam lewat hati, menangkap bisikan Tuhan dan menerima ilham (Pak Kobayashi, hal. 75)

A Nobel horse Doesent feel the crack of his masters whip

My maternal grandmother was not a philosopher, and she used to say that "words have no bones, but they can break bones." She knew what we all know: a word can cause more pain, more damage than the sharpest knife. As far as she was concerned, saying something and doing something were exactly the same.

Zweig would have dismissed our modern emotional incontinence as a sign not of honesty but of an increasing inability or unwillingness truly to feel.

Only a man with a heart of stone could read of the death of Little Nell without laughing.' Oscar Wilde

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

Hmm, I know I get more feminine when I'm mad, like I'll roll my neck, like I'm rolling my eyes.

I have supersensitive skin, to the point where sometimes I touch my neck and it turns red.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.