Quotes about Senses

Some of them had to have Bible verses read to them because they could not decipher print themselves, so they had sharpened the skills of the illiterate: perfect memory, photographic minds, keen senses of smell and hearing.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason; his senses tell him only that something is, but what it is must be learned by his mind.

Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it's in shape.

Although people use both sides of the brain, one side or the other generally tends to be dominant in each individual. Of course, the ideal would be to cultivate and develop the ability to have good crossover between both sides of the brain so that a person could first sense what the situation called for and then use the appropriate tool to deal with it.

Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil's trap, having been captured by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:26

Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.