#senses

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#coming #depend #genetically #information #many

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#awake #clear #experience #feel #new

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#basis #comprise #doer #factors #knower

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

— Michael Servetus

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Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#does #easily #gets #his #into

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

— Barbara Sher

#completely #eyes #fresh #neglected #reward

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#conquer #fight #must #put #senses

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#angry #any #awful #child #children