The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind […]
Perception Quotes
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I think – I think it’s in my basement. – Let me go upstairs and check.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Of no individual thing one can “say” what it is. Our very first comprehension implies this. We comprehend that the understanding never gets to the bottom of things.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance.
