Quotes of: Insensible Keyword

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Rosalind Russell

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

Steven Pinker

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

Paul Bloom

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

Frances Burney

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

William Thomas Green Morton

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

Millicent Fawcett

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Mary Astell

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

David Hume

I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.

John Clare

It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Sherlock Holmes

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

The War of the Worlds

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Charles Babbage

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another inte...

Voltaire

Forsaking the shield of insensibility she had tightly woven over herself during her years as a gelder, she unbarred her heart. She invited him in.

Gabriel

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business