Senses Quotes - Page 25

• When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Eye, Rewards

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.139, Dell

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• The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Education, Learning, Eye

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• Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.

  Keith Lazelle

  Photography, Expectations, Trying

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• Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

  Michael Servetus

  Perception, Found, Intellect

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• What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books

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• YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

  Pat Pattison

  Powerful, Writing, Mind

  Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.20, Writer's Digest Books

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• If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

  Helen Keller

  Hearing, All Alone, Feels

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• When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Loses

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

  Richard Louv

  Needs, Natural, Surroundings

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• Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate the long view afforded by those treetops. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Climbing, Views

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

  Abraham Flexner

  World

  Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Powerful, Simple, Sight

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “This Earth of Mankind”, William Morrow

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• The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

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• You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Bored, Soul, Awake

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• Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

  Barry Hughart

  Darkness, Brain, Tiny

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.194, Spectra

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• How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Play, People, Trying

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• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Radio, Belief

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

  Basilea Schlink

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Past, Self, Lust

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana the Realization of Life”, p.109, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

  Tahir Shah

  Imagination, Waiting, Television

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.71, Random House

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• In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Fighting, Men

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.327, Macmillan

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• Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Men, Soul

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• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Men

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Intelligent, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

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