perception Quotes

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.