Welcome to our collection of sense quotes, where wisdom and insight converge to illuminate the depths of human perception. The concept of senses encompasses not only the physical faculties through which we perceive the world but also the deeper layers of intuition, empathy, and understanding that shape our experiences. From the tangible sensations of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to the intangible realms of emotional resonance and intellectual comprehension, our senses serve as portals to a richer understanding of existence.
In this curated compilation, we delve into the diverse perspectives on senses offered by philosophers, poets, artists, and thinkers throughout history. These quotes offer glimpses into the myriad ways in which humans interact with and interpret the world around them, inviting reflection on the significance of perception in shaping our realities. Whether contemplating the beauty of sensory experiences or pondering the intricacies of sensory perception, these quotes serve as poignant reminders of the richness and complexity of the human experience. Explore the profound insights encapsulated within these quotes as we celebrate the profound role of senses in our lives. Now, without further ado, let us delve into the captivating realm of sense quotes.
The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it’s still me in the sense that, my dad called me ‘Kali Uchis’ my whole life. It’s still something I’ve been called since I was a baby. It’s still me. Kali Uchis
Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy. Drew Pinsky
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Max Eastman
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful. Rashida Jones
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie
I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. Jennifer Aniston
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. Les Brown
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. Steve Jobs
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. Elon Musk
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline. William Hague
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Patrick Lencioni
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. Paul Tsongas
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. Martha Beck
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained. Helen Keller
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides
There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change. Tiger Woods
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. Jim Rohn
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. Tommy Hilfiger
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. Albert Schweitzer
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people. Nicole Scherzinger
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Martin Luther
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. E. B. White
The process of editing is what I enjoy most – putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. Christian Marclay
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. Steve Ballmer
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Rick Warren
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon
I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with. Jennifer Connelly
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. Yuval Noah Harari
Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. Steve Prefontaine
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors. Samuel Smiles
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas A. Edison
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild. Peter Singer
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Milan Kundera
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Nikola Tesla
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. e. e. cummings
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Thomas Hobbes
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Anais Nin
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan
Camaraderie doesn’t happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort. Don Yaeger
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. David Lynch
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. Zig Ziglar
As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music. Wale
Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things. Nate Berkus
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. Abraham Maslow
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible. John Lewis
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Erik Erikson
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. Isaac Asimov
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment! Aly Raisman
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. Allyson Felix
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. Ron Paul
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. George S. Patton
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Thornton Wilder
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. Alfred Adler
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. George Washington
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. Sarah Churchwell
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. Billy Graham
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. Haniel Long
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Neil deGrasse Tyson
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. Margaret Thatcher
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth. Heart Evangelista
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Karl Marx
You’ll always remember your first car and the memories that come with it – that sense of adventure! Paddy McGuinness
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory. Giuseppe Mazzini
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable – but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I’m talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age. Amy Tan
A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy. Kerry Kennedy
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest. Maria Montessori
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony J. D’Angelo
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings. Publilius Syrus
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob Riis
