Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect."
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Senses
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Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth."
John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses."
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"Love heightens all senses - except the common."
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"Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses."
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"How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?"
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"One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are."
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"It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all."
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"God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere."
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"We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses."
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"By going out of your mind, you come to your senses"
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"How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!"
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"Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?"
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"One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master."
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"Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom."
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"The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly."
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"If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it."
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"Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious."
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"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."
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"No man in his senses will dance."
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"And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?"
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"Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that."
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"Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence."
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