All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Perception Quotes
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view. (Robert Zimmerman)
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
The professional/managerial class has always overestimated its own contribution to the collective endeavor, and I’m afraid the cyber-era has exacerbated this form of vanity… In fact, it takes a whole lot of lifting, bending, scrubbing, carting, sorting, and caring to make the world as we know it happen every day. And are people forgetting that […]
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
We do not see the lens through which we look.