Quotes About Perception

Considering all of the above, Sagan seems not only to have been an astronomer and a fiction writer, but also something of an intuitive "seer.

While both of these adages may be somewhat appropriate in certain situations, it might daringly be pointed up that if we BECOME and ARE only what we experience, then it is not quite clear why we need intellect-intelligence or wisdom in the first place – because what we experience would do it ALL for us.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

In this, the thinking proceeds from actual experience and not from analyzing the information packages presented in the works of others.

past states, across time and space, simply on the basis of similarity with present states. . . .

Apperception," as it is presently conceived, means "introspective self-consciousness," "the mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent," "a condition in which we are conscious of our own existence and consciousness of our own perceptions," "perception of the sum of things," and "the recognition of truths" [emphasis added].

To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.

and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal

Quand je lis quelque chose je suis frappée tout de suite par peut-être une certaine vérité dedans n'est ce pas ? Quelque chose de sincère, et c'est pas nécessaire que c'est tragique ou un drame ca peut être aussi une comédie mais il faut avoir quelque chose de vraie.

He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.

By exploring who Vasari was, how he wrote his book, and what influence it has had on how we perceive art, then we can also explore the significant questions of what art is, why it is so important to the human species, and how we have interacted with it.

[I] asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay, and I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me. People didn't know what to do, because they had never been presented with the option before.

Che vale poter vedere in quarant'anni dieci volte, in vece che una, le quattro parti del mondo? Né il mondo s'allarga né la vita s'allunga per ciò; e chi pensa troppo, correrà sempre fuori di quei limiti nell'infinito, nel mistero senza luce.

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Yet how do we do so and still avoid the madness that such wakefulness can bring on?

It ain't necessarily so—The things that you're liableTo read in the Bible—It ain't necessarily so.

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting?