Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Perception Quotes
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.
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 […]
