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Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation. -- Deepak Chopra
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. -- Muhammad Iqbal
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. -- Bridget Riley
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. -- Caitlyn Jenner
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. -- H. L. Mencken
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. -- Martha Beck
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy. -- Bruce Jenner
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds. -- Jerry Spinelli
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas. -- Arne Glimcher
The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble. -- Henry Markram
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. -- Jerry Saltz
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away. -- Joshua Foer
The best way to acquire wisdom is by perceptual realization. -- Debasish Mridha
Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities. -- Debasish Mridha
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true -- William James
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience -- Bridget Riley
What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system. -- Deepak Chopra
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms. -- Catherine Wilson
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. -- Frederick Lenz
Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality. -- Edmund Blair Bolles
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. -- Frederick Lenz
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. -- Daniel Bell
Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. -- Gary Zukav
The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. -- Caitlyn Jenner
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. -- Jerry Fodor
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes. -- William James
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences. -- Deepak Chopra
When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream. -- Ernest Sosa
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work. -- Hollis Frampton
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident. -- Rudolf Arnheim
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction. -- James Redfield
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant. -- William Pfaff
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes. -- Marshall McLuhan
We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go. -- Frederick Lenz
I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill. -- Fred Wilson
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ... -- Sri Aurobindo
The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings. -- Stephen Covey

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