Quotes About Perception

When all is said and done, there are only two kinds of investors: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third kind: those who know they don't know, but whose livelihoods depend on appearing to know.

Tasa de descuento alta = riesgo percibido elevado, alta rentabilidad, cotización de acciones depreciada. Tasa de descuento baja = riesgo percibido bajo, baja rentabilidad, cotización de acciones elevada.

The point here is that runs of 4 or more heads or tails are perceived as a nonrandom pattern, when in fact they are in fact the rule in random sequences, not the exception. Stock market participants frequently make this mistake, and an entirely bogus field of finance known as "technical analysis" is devoted to finding patterns in random financial data.

Although the Romans knew Chinese silk, they knew not China. They believed that silk grew directly on the mulberry tree, not realizing that the leaves were merely the worm's home and its food.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

People don't see the world as it is, rather we impose our beliefs on what we experience.

If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!

ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colorless, destitute of emotional warmth.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Time itself comes in drops.

[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Consciousness… does not appear to itself chopped up in bits…. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.