Sensitive quotes
195 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much."
"My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them."
"If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings."
"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
"All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand."
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"Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians."
"If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love."
"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist"
"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
"I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me."
"I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive."
"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."
"There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type."
"Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive."
"Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft"
"The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."
"Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism."
"Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness."
"Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women."
"You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier."
"Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them."
"As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am."
"Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl."
"Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt."
"For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much."
