Quotes about Perception

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

We are very much what others think of us . The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.