Quotes

Quotes about Sensibility

I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

William Cowper

It argues an insensibility.

Charles Lamb

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Peter B. Medawar

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

William Aristotle