Humans Quote by Francis Bacon

“The mind must be passive and in some sense featureless so as not to distort what comes into it. If it interferes with its…

— Lee Braver

“man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind…

— Francis Bacon

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

“But beyond the mind, beyond our thoughts, there is something we call the 'nature of the mind', the mind's true condition, which is beyond…

— Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

— Maryanne Wolf

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains…

— John Locke

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and…

— Francis Bacon

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given…

— Ralph Cudworth

“The nature of the mind is like a mirror which has the natural and inherent capacity to reflect whatever is set before it, whether…

— John Myrdhin Reynolds

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

— Leon Jouhaux

To understand is to perceive patterns.

— Isaiah Berlin