Sayings about Senses
Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly. ~ Finnish Proverbs
When the drop is inside the sense is outside.~ Irish Proverbs
There are three friends in this world: courage, sense, and insight.~ African Proverb
If the wine comes in, good sense goes out. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five.~ Arabian Proverbs
Good health and good sense are two great blessings. ~ Latin Proverbs
Money buys everything but good sense. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life. ~ Traditional Proverb
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Quotations about Senses
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. ~ Henry Reed
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. ~ Alexander Pope
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar — net of our senses.~ Diane Ackerman
Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe. ~ Wentworth Dillon
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We live on the leash of our senses.~ Diane Ackerman
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.~ William M. Thackeray
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ~ Nelson Mandela
The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.~ Author Unknown
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. ~ Henry Fuseli
No sense makes sense. ~ Charles Manson
You are an annihilator of sense. ~ William Congreve
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety. ~ Moliere
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.~ Denis Diderot
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.~ Oscar Wilde
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. ~ Henry Fielding
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. ~ Cervantes
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t. ~ Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others. ~ Amelia E. Barr
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. ~ Sam Mendes
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.~ Sir William Osler
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.~ Socrates
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. ~Oliver Sacks
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events. ~ Henry Reed
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense, too, he is not far from genius. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ~ Lewis Carroll
He who loses not his senses in certain things has no senses to lose. ~ Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
You cram these words into mine ears, against the stomach of my sense. ~ William Shakespeare
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.~ Mervyn Peake