Joss Whedon Quotes

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

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

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

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.

I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

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

Horses do sense things way before people.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

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

Smell is a fallen angel.

Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.

A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.

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

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.