Top 100 Human Perception Quotes
#1. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer
Ian Bogost
#2. What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
Marshall McLuhan
#3. Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.
Douglas Hofstadter
#4. I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
James Balog
#5. cognitive scientists studying human perception agree: we don't experience objective reality; we experience a model of objective reality that our brain creates for us.
Steve Volk
#6. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
Teller
#7. Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.
Brandon Sanderson
#9. Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#10. Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
James Gleick
#11. Fashion and public relations share a charter to turn life to their own advantage, to make malleable and commercially useful the naked human perception. Both interests consider life too small, dull, and colorless to get itself sufficiently noticed without the lobbying efforts of professionals.
Kennedy Fraser
#13. Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.
Jorie Graham
#14. Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towards reality. True nature of the reality fits better with spectrum approach.
Toba Beta
#15. The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
James Redfield
#16. [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#17. From all aspects of human perception, you truly are your brain.
Abhijit Naskar
#18. All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
Deepak Chopra
#19. The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
Flannery O'Connor
#20. The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#21. Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply ... not ... true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.
William S. Burroughs
#22. Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions.
Mike Carey
#23. The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.
Richard J. Borden
#24. True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events.
Eternity ain't based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle.
Toba Beta
#26. It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.
Robert Breault
#27. Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
Ezra Miller
#28. There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second
Charles Tomlinson
#29. There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a perception of ourselves and in order for that to be a true perception we have to believe in a soul within us.
Jonathan Trigell
#30. From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its own myth and stories.
Abhijit Naskar
#31. During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well
Walter Benjamin
#32. Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
Neil Gaiman
#33. Man ought never to trust another man's evaluation of a third man's disposition. For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance;
Eleanor Catton
#34. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. Perception believed is reality achieved
Andy August
#36. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.
Abhijit Naskar
#37. Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.
David Mitchell
#38. Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.
Ka Chinery
#39. Doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.
Josephine Tey
#40. Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,
John Maeda
#41. Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.
John Mackey
#42. Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
Tom Peters
#43. Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.
Tobsha Learner
#44. The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
E. O. Wilson
#45. As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.
Frederick Lenz
#46. That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
Idries Shah
#47. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once
C.S. Lewis
#48. Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.
Diego Giacometti
#50. Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.
Frederick Lenz
#51. There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
Salman Rushdie
#53. Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#54. The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
David Hanson
#55. The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
Tom Peters
#56. If human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.
Alastair Reynolds
#57. The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.
Donald Wuerl
#58. As other perceptions arise ... the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.
Jean Baker Miller
#59. The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this ...
William Wordsworth
#60. Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.
Juliette Lewis
#61. Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
Edward De Bono
#62. Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?
Bash
#63. It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.
Jaggi Vasudev
#64. The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.
Abhijit Naskar
#65. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
T. S. Eliot
#66. 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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#67. Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
Scott Adams
#69. Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.
Jaggi Vasudev
#70. The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception ...
Celia Thaxter
#71. It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
Brad Pitt
#72. The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.
Frederick Lenz
#73. We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
Noam Chomsky
#74. We are evolving
from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans ...
The perceptions of the multi-sensory human
extend beyond physical reality
to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part.
Gary Zukav
#75. What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.
Jaggi Vasudev
#76. Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.
Jaggi Vasudev
#77. The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks.
Abhijit Naskar
#79. Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.
David Eagleman
#80. The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?
Edward De Bono
#81. Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.
Abhijit Naskar
#82. The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
Marilynne Robinson
#83. Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.
Robert Henri
#84. I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.
Mark Rippetoe
#85. Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things. However, what is a similarity? My Juliet is the sun: in what sense? A
Kim Stanley Robinson
#86. For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance; Moody saw now that he could no more have
Eleanor Catton
#87. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#88. I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
Bill Hicks
#89. If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.
Toba Beta
#90. Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.
Ernest Becker
#91. There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.
Robert Penn Warren
#92. Not because we think that it's still about to happen,
thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.
Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future.
Toba Beta
#93. People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.
Ruth Rendell
#94. Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.
Hal Zina Bennett
#95. There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#96. The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living
creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were in
repose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.
Aldous Huxley
#97. When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.
Sharon Salzberg
#98. The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.
Francis Bacon
#99. Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble ... [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality ... a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
Eugene H. Peterson
#100. One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent - or, for that matter, an effective human being - is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to get into their world.
Jane Nelsen
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