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Quotes About Senses

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!
~ Martha Beck
If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.
~ Mel B
Our senses have changed, even though our emotions have not.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.
~ Julian Treasure
Homeschooling has always been at the back of my mind, because whenever I am with the boys and we are out in different environments their senses heighten and their enthusiasm to learn is at its best.
~ Stacey Solomon
Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.
~ Tara Stiles
As I followed Mr. Harrison, I picked up his salty, sweet odor—it pervaded the whole apartment actually—and I liked it. It smelled alive.
~ Jonathan Ames
Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.
~ Jonathan Franzen
His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts—his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world
~ Jonathan Lethem
This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes is himself.
~ Jonathan Swift
Quieres ver lo que no vieron ojos humanos? Mira la luna. ¿Quieres oír lo que los oídos no oyeron? Oye el grito del pájaro. ¿Quieres tocar lo que no tocaron las manos? Toca la tierra.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Blake wrote that if our senses did not work - if we were blind, deaf, etc. - we would see things as they are; infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One of the strangest elements in travelling to other worlds is the way people smell. It isn't a matter of hygiene, simply a case of different foods, different oils and soaps for cleaning, meaning skin, hair, sweat and breath is always vastly different, world to world.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
~ Adam Smith
Emergence emphasizes critical connections over critical mass, building authentic relationships, listening with all the senses of the body and the mind.
~ Adrienne Marie Brown
I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.
~ Grizz Chapman
When there's a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it causes my senses to peak. I can see more clearly. You can think much faster. You hear at a different level.
~ Dean Potter
We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses.
~ Pranav Mistry
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
~ Johannes P. Muller
I'm perfectly fine with Pacquiao the Christian wanting to separate Mayweather from his senses.
~ Skip Bayless