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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.