Quotes about Senses

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
-Oscar Wilde

"Develop a built-in bullshit detector."
-Ernest Hemingway

"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."
-Socrates

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
-Galileo Galilei

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

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?"
-C. S. Lewis

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
-Helen Keller

"The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars."
-Albert Pike

"Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be."
-Benjamin Spock

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
-Charles Mackay

"I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one."
-David Mason

"If a child says it has five senses, their parents will surely believe that it has the sixth one as well."
-Dirceu Alves Ferreira

"I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change."
-Tiberius Caesar

"Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed."
-John Fowles

"Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world."
-Adriaan Kortlandt

"Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She had the requisite sadism, paranoia and taste for violence."
-Harriet Van Horne

"It feels like butter. It's so soft. You have to use all the senses to appreciate our merchandise."
-Roberta Kaplan

"I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life."
-Pablo Casals

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality."
-Norman Douglas

"In some senses, it is easy to poke fun or think you know what is going on by looking in from the outside, ... The company is clear about what it wants to do. There is no civil war at the management level."
-Craig Mundie

"Luckily one of us came to our senses."
-Barbara Griffin

"Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know."
-Amy Lowell

"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"
-Frank Herbert

"Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel."
-Katha Upanishad

"You don't have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish I'd come to mine earlier than I did."
-Randy Travis

"It comes naturally because we've always played together. I know where she is on field; we almost have senses for each other."
-Lauren Lane