Senses Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Quotations, tags: Common Sense, five senses, good sense, sense, senses
Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly.~ Finnish Proverb
Common sense hides shame.~ Gaelic Proverb
Common sense is not so common.~ French Proverb
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
Good health and good sense are two great blessings.~ Latin Proverb
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five.~ Arabian Proverb
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.~ Sir William Osler
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.~ Traditional Proverb
If the wine comes in, good sense goes out.~ Hebrew Proverb
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.~ William M. Thackeray
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
Money buys everything but good sense.~ Yiddish Proverb
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.~ Oscar Wilde
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. ~ Persian Proverb
Parents can give everything but common sense.~ Yiddish Proverb
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
Seek advice but use your own common sense. ~ Yiddish Proverb
The blind say that eyes have no sense of smell.~ Nigerian Proverb
The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.~ Author Unknown
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.~ African Proverb
There are three friends in this world: courage, sense, and insight.~ African Proverb
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar — net of our senses.~ Diane Ackerman
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
We live on the leash of our senses.~ Diane Ackerman
When the drop is inside the sense is outside.~ Irish Proverb
Women and wine rid a man of his common sense.~ Spanish Proverb
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