Quotes About Senses

Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe ' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.

When we participate actively in our lives and open our senses to all the stimuli around us, we build memories that can be retrieved and enjoyed the rest of our lives.

In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

We are unable to Realize WHO WE ARE because the Mind Wanders and the Senses Desire and thus, we continue to BE WHO WE ARE NOT.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses

But every time, what brought me to my senses was my conviction that before a person dropped a new life into this world, she should probably get a real one herself.

True listening, she says, isn't something that merely happens to you. It's something to do and to feel, to throw yourself into rationally, emotionally, and physically. Listening is something to engage with multiple senses. It isn't passive or reactive; it's creative. And to do it well, you must feel the experience—not just think about it.

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

Amy [ Schumer] is a really, really hilarious writer.She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.