Five Senses Quotes

• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Ministers, Five

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.335, GENERAL PRESS

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• Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Smell, Sight

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• No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Ideas, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.337, Princeton University Press

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• Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

  Bruce Lee

  Five, Senses

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• Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

  William Osler

  Philosophy, Practice, Smell

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• If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

  Helen Keller

  Interesting, Use, Gains

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• We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Music, Silence, Listening

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• Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Memories, Smell, Best Memories

  Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.63, Writer's Digest Books

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• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• Love is the poetry of the senses.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Piano, Smell

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• It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

  James Cameron

  Imagination, Curiosity, Levels

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• Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Reality, Five

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• Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.

  Bernie Siegel

  Healing, World, Helping

  Bernie Siegel (2016). “Peace, Love And Healing”, p.9, Random House

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• Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Data, Needs

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• The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Inspirational, Five, Senses

  Song: Rise 'n' Shine

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• We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

  Martha Beck

  Moving, Five, Senses

  "Oprah’s Life Coach on Achieving Your Goals" by Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2011.

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• 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 a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Minorities, Assumption

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Character, Outcomes

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

  Gloria Steinem

  Age, Needs, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.

  Oliver Sacks

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Doors, Poet, Professors

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• The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Regret, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Giving, Feelings, Atmosphere

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