Quotes about Senses
Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.
— Frank Herbert
God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.
— Steve Jobs
The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order. This power is called imagination.
— Edmund Burke
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
— Richard Baxter
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
— Margaret Mead
Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.
— William Wordsworth
A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.
— Woodrow Wilson
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.
— Robert Frost
A miracle is a display of power from beyond the five senses.
— Deepak Chopra
Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.
— Denzel Washington
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
— John Henry Newman