Acquire Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color,…

— Jacques Barzun

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

— Carlos Castaneda

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of…

— Anonymous

In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are…

— Peter Medawar

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge…

— Richard Gregory

I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio…

— Brenda Laurel

In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes…

— David Eagleman

“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it,…

— Jeff VanderMeer

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have…

— S. N. Goenka