Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles of knowledge, they produce error, dissension, and perplexity, because what is affirmed in one sense […]
Perception Quotes
The young boy stood looking up the road to the future. In the distance both sides appeared to converge together. ‘That is due to perspective, when you reach there the road is as wide as it is here’ said a wise old man. The young boy set off on the road, but as he went […]
Few have strength of reason to overrule the perceptions of sense, and yet fewer have curiosity or benevolence to struggle long against the first impression: he who therefore fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are.
It would be as useless to perceive how things ‘actually look’ as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned – not to see what is not.
Magnificence is wasted on a mouse: they judge all things by cheese.
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.
