Sensibility Quotes

• It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

  George Pope Morris

  Strong, Together, Genius

  Samuel Woodworth, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1830). “The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts”, p.344

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• In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Creativity, Emotional

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

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• Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

  Robert Delaunay

  Light, Movement, Visuals

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

  Henry James

  Experience, Spiders, Tissues

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Years, Numbers

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• We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

  Marcel Proust

  Tone, Introducing, Habit

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  William James

  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Order, Literature

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

  Hannah More

  Pain, Imagination, Reign

  Hannah More (1803). “The Works of Hannah More, in Four Volumes: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.87

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• The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Flower, Heart, Feelings

  Fitz-Greene HALLECK (1847). “The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected”, p.52

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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Courage, Men, Perfect

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• And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

  Thomas Moore

  Nature, Flower, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174

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• We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Education

  Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”

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• I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Expectations, Liberty

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• We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Care, Noise, Affection

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.574

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• Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  Jane Austen

  Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour
  A thousand melodies unheard before.

  Samuel Rogers

  Heart, Feelings, Thousand

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• The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Beauty, Self Esteem

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• I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

  Shawn Colvin

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

  John Grierson

  Training, World, Lines

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• Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Doors, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.66

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• I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

  Nicolas Cage

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Kind

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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Names, Self, Ego

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Broken, Silence

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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