Michael Scott Quotes

Use all of your senses.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

We live on the leash of our senses.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

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.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

We become in part what our senses take in.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

Live with all of your senses.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

The true man of science - will smell, taste, see, hear better than other men.

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.

The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.