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Senses Quotes

Diane Ackerman once said, “There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.” Our sensory powerhouse of eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin helps us to perceive the world with all its wonders and beauty and appreciate it. These sense organs help us to sense the things around us and are the ultimate stimuli for all actions and reactions. Power up your senses with these famous senses quotations and sayings and have fun.

Lao Tzu

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Honoré de Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Virginia Woolf

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Washington Irving

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Leonardo da Vinci

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Leonardo da Vinci

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Tom Stoppard

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Michel de Montaigne

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Blaise Pascal

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.