Perception Quotes

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.

If you can see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it. Which is the ‘true’ or ‘valid’ experience? Which tells you most about the thing? And you can hardly ask that question without noticing that for the last fifty years or so everyone has been taking the […]

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter’s facility for expression.

The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.