#senses

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#common sense #given #judges #other #sense

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bombarded #confronted #constantly #days #escalating

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things. ↗

— Shaun White

#also #awareness #balance #gets #great

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#every #everything #expression #gesture #senses

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? ↗

— Frank Herbert

#around #cannot #deaf #deafness #fact

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#create #education #giving #means #observation

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#five #fully #keeping #live #middle-aged

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#congratulate #his #i #knew #man

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot. ↗

— Savannah Page

#life #pleasure #senses #beauty