Quotes about Perception
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver
— St. Thomas Aquinas
nothing can be known, save what is true;
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: The six days, as Augustine understands them, are taken as the six classes of things known by the angels; so that the day's unit is taken according to the unit of the thing understood; which, nevertheless, can be apprehended by various ways of knowing it.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
— Charles Swindoll
People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
— Billy Graham