(882 quotes found)
“Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo
“Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us”
Sigmund Freud
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
Richard Dawkins
“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
Edward de Bono
“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality”
Alexis Carrel
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite”
William Blake
“Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.”
Wilson Bryan Key
“I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.”
Bill Gates
“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
