Courses Quote by Edith Wharton

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance…

— Benjamin Cardozo

“To what extent are we the authors, the creators of our own experiences? How much are these predetermined by the brains or senses we…

— Oliver Sacks

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Humans ain't blind about the future. Most disable one of the senses because they feel daunted to look at it. It is fear that…

— Toba Beta

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

— David Hume

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

— Alva Noe

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

— Susan Griffin

“Willful blindness” may hinder us from discerning the critical fault lines in the narrative of our life. Our memory may obliterate then the crucial…

— Erik Pevernagie

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.

— Rumi

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident…

— Peter Cooper

“Thus, over the course of seconds sensory cues can shape your behavior unconsciously.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky