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Quotes About Senses

I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his Senses.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
~ Ernst Mach
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
~ Dane Cook
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
~ Action Bronson
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
~ Alice Oswald
I've suffered betrayal with all five senses.
~ Gillian Flynn
teeth coming down on the tip of my
~ Gillian Flynn
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
~ Giordano Bruno
Nothing was ever truly lost, if you only had access to all the eyes and senses in the universe, as he sometimes imagined God did. God himself had no eyes; He made eyes and put living things in charge of them, that He might witness the majesty of creation from an objective viewpoint.
~ Greg Bear
I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus "with all five senses." The
~ Gregory A. Boyd
There was too much that I didn't understand. There was too much that I wouldn't allow myself to ask. And I was excited, in that web of connections and concealments. The scent of danger, the smell of fear, filled my senses.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The scents of the fruits surrounded us as their tastes dissolved in our mouths.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.
~ Gregory David Roberts
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.
~ Katherine Paterson
The first step in Occultism is the study of the invisible Worlds. These Worlds are invisible to the majority of people because of the dormancy of the finer and higher senses whereby they may be perceived, in the same way that the Physical World about us is perceived through the physical senses.
~ Max Heindel
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn't always the perfect one that's been covered in pesticides.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
~ Shaun White
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Es war, wie Alina mir einmal erklärt hatte: Es sind nicht die Augen, mit denen wir die Welt erkennen. Es sind unsere Gefühle, die uns sehen lassen. Und meine Gefühle spürten in diesem Moment die Anwesenheit des Todes.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Strogo uzevši, oko je samo produžena alatka našeg istinskog vizualnog osjetilnog organa - mozga, koji nikada ne dopušta da promatramo stvarnost, nego samo njezinu interpretaciju.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
los niños confían en el tacto y en la vista por igual, pero le dejan las tareas más fáciles al tacto) y
~ Sergio Bizzio
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson