Quotes About Sensory Perception

#1. I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception.

Sylvia Plath

#2. These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

Alan Turing

#3. Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

David Abram

#4. The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

Olivia Williams

#5. Interpretative thoughts settle on a bare sensory perception like a swarm of blue-bottles on an open wound.

Nanamoli Thera

#6. There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#7. In the far reaches of her brain a storehouse of demeaning events evidently opened a door for Extra Sensory Perception experiences to enter.

Judy Byington

#8. Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

David Abram

#9. A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach ... a multi-sensory perception ... a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.

Gary Zukav

#10. A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.

Fred Schepisi

#11. Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#12. One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

Kevin Barry

#13. Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#14. There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing was that at this moment, she didn't care. It no longer mattered. She didn't even look his way.

Abraham Verghese

#15. People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

Dolly Parton

#16. Parents of young children are always acting. You act excited to read a story for the five-hundredth time. You act impressed someone went to the bathroom on the toilet. The excitement I show to some of the children's scribbles should get me a Golden Globe nomination.

Jim Gaffigan

#17. In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

#18. 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

#19. Neuroenology explains how the fluid mechanics of the wine in your mouth and the patterns of your breathing activate your sensory and motor pathways to create the taste of wine and, together with your central brain systems for emotion and memory, generate the whole perception of wine pleasure. We

Gordon M Shepherd

#20. When we fight with the truth and stand in it to the end, then God Himself comes and confirms His Word, His righteousness and His truth

Sunday Adelaja

#21. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

Gary Zukav