1,601 Quotes About Perception

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

My perception is that we're making considerable progress. But not as much progress as we thought that we would make.

all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.